[0:06] Good evening. Welcome to the August 4th city council meeting. Please join me for a moment of silence in the pledge of allegiance

[0:28] to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it

[0:34] stands.

[0:41] Okay, Miss Olowski, roll call, please. Michelle Vult

[0:47] here. Luke Kelly here. John Burmel here. Dan Walter here.

[0:52] And Joshua Lee is absent. Okay. Uh, moving on to item number three, citizens comments. There's an

[0:58] opportunity for anybody to address the council for up to three minutes about an issue not on the agenda. Seeing none.

[1:05] Okay. Um, additional agenda information, Mr. Miller?

[1:10] Nothing tonight, Mayor. Okay. And we will then get right into our presentation with our police department quarterly report. We'll turn

[1:17] it over to Chief Pollson for the rundown.

[1:28] Hopefully, you don't have it memorized. I don't,

[1:34] but I have a backup, but we're on board now. So, uh, so this is our quarter 2 report, uh, covering the months of April

[1:41] through June of this year. And all of the work that we do is framed under our mission statement, which says, "A Lake

[1:47] Police Department exists to ensure an excellent quality of life in Lakeville by serving and protecting in a

[1:52] professional and innovative way." So, kind of the theme of quarter two for

[1:58] us was uh some transition uh and using a sports analogy was more like uh a couple

[2:03] of line changes than substitutions, but we had a lot of movement um but some some positive movement. So, as you can

[2:10] see here, four retirements uh over the course of a few weeks in late June and the first couple days of July, about 120

[2:18] years of dedicated service to Lakefield PD with those four gentlemen there. So losing a lot of uh really good people, a

[2:25] lot of experience uh but really happy to see them enjoying uh moving into the next phase, the retirement phase of

[2:30] their lives. So Commander Jim Punchikar who was our uh administrative commander,

[2:36] uh Bill Gur who was our operations commander, Jason Pollinsky, who was most recently in professional standards but

[2:42] had touched a lot of different units in the in the PD. and then Doyle Cochril who was our senior sergeant uh who had

[2:49] been a supervisor for about seven years prior to his retirement. So

[2:54] uh proud of the work that all four of those gentlemen uh provided to the city.

[3:00] With that obviously comes some uh some back filling. So uh three new lieutenants. We did a little bit of a of

[3:06] a restructure. So we've added three lieutenants to the two current existing lieutenants. that these are are u new

[3:14] faces to the to the lieutenant role. On the left there, Jeff Hansen, who will be our support lieutenant. In the middle is

[3:20] Thor How, who will be uh our professional standards lieutenant. And then Jeremy Lurfeld on the right, uh

[3:25] moving into operations, where he'll join Jason Haidider to oversee primarily our patrol division as well as our CSOS.

[3:35] Moving further along the line here with some new sergeants. So, um, back at our

[3:40] quarter one report, we highlighted Tom Danielson, so he's not pictured here, but, uh, the four newest additions to

[3:45] the sergeant ranks on the left, Allison Shank, and then Nick Jacobson, Sarah Man, and Casey King. Uh, all with a

[3:53] number of years of experience with Lakeville PD. Uh, and these are frontline supervisors and, uh, all very

[3:59] good police officers. They they know the job very well. They're good at administering the job. Uh but even more

[4:06] with our frontline supervisors, we look for a mentorship role there that people that have uh you know shown the ability

[4:12] to to coach, to guide, to teach. And all four of these folks have done that through various roles as field trainers,

[4:19] instructors, and we know they'll step into that role and have stepped into that role already and are are doing very

[4:25] well. Uh, I should pass along a little extra recognition here to our human

[4:30] resources director, Lissa Fry, and her staff for helping uh, facilitate all of this movement over the course of the

[4:36] past few months. So, they've done an outstanding job helping us out there. Uh, moving along to uh, the K9 world. K9

[4:44] Nora uh, was new to the PD earlier this year, but has now completed uh, the vast

[4:50] majority of her initial training. She's paired up with Jolene Warden. Jolene's been an officer for coming up on four

[4:55] years, but uh they've been out on the road now. She's got Nora has her patrol

[5:01] certification, participated in their first Panaprog K9 demo here a few weeks

[5:06] ago. So, good uh good to have them out there working.

[5:11] And then, uh some new patrol officers as well. Uh Justin Angel who joins us from

[5:17] Mystic Lake. uh he was a security supervisor out there um and then moved

[5:22] into a a role coordinating uh some of the entertainment they get out there kind of being the liaison for Mystic

[5:27] Lake that works with uh entertainment groups that come in and then uh going a

[5:32] little bit further back he's got a connection here to Lakeville as a reserve officer with us was a liquor store associate and then a community

[5:39] service officer for three years. So, always good to get some of these folks uh cycling back through in a patrol

[5:45] officer role. And then one of his partners out at Mystic Lake joined him. So, uh Alex Conl

[5:52] also security supervisor out at the casino. He has his bachelor's degree in law enforcement from Mano. Uh both of

[5:59] these guys as a direct result of our internal um recruitment efforts. Josh Wickner, an officer we hired late last

[6:06] year, came from Mystic Lake and has enjoyed his experience and spread the word and uh allowed us to hire a couple

[6:12] of other really good quality candidates here. So, welcome to Justin and Alex.

[6:17] And then uh these two folks are part of our grant program um which is kind of winding down here, but Josh Enavald and

[6:24] Megan Karp uh started their schooling at Henipin County or Henipin Technical College, I should say, uh back in

[6:30] February. They wrapped up in July uh with school and now they've moved into our traditional field training program.

[6:37] They started about two weeks ago. Uh but again, we we're paying these folks as full-time employees while they're going

[6:43] through school. Uh providing the cost for their tuition and then that's um reimbursed to us through a grant uh for

[6:50] up to 50,000 per candidate through the uh Department of Public Safety. So uh we

[6:55] ended up having three move through that program now. So Nick Navau was the first and he's just winding up winding down

[7:01] his field training program. And then Josh and Megan as well.

[7:06] Some of our community engagement efforts in quarter two on the left there. Those two pictures are from our open house

[7:12] which was on Memorial Day weekend back in May. We were fortunate to have another good weather year for that. Uh

[7:18] but that's a really good way for uh a lot of community members, families to come out and have a lot of interactive

[7:26] uh fun with some of our staff. Some booths set up with uh a lot of good hands-on activities and equipment that

[7:31] they can uh climb on and look at and and interact with our folks. Uh the upper

[7:37] right there is a torch run which was in July. We start the South Metro leg of

[7:43] the torch run. This is a partnership with Special Olympics, which has a long-standing tradition of of pairing

[7:48] with law enforcement. We bring the torch up to Crystal Lake Beach and pass it off to Burnsville PD, who takes it from

[7:55] there. I think we had about 14 or 15 uh runners and bikers this year. And K9

[8:01] Nora led the pack as you can see there. She had a little more energy than some of us did, but but we all made it, so

[8:06] that was a good day. And then on the right, Movie on the Turf. This was early June on the turf up at Lakeville North

[8:13] High School. Um, a lot of uh toys and handouts that are provided from

[8:18] community sponsors, food, games, activities, and then a movie as the uh sun starts to go down there. So, looks

[8:25] like our staff there is probably having more fun than just as much fun as the kids. But, uh, they enjoy being out

[8:31] there, too. Just a brief update on the first center. If you haven't been by lately, the uh the warehouse on the far

[8:37] east side of the property is has some walls up. So, uh and a lot of dirt

[8:43] moved, which is fun for our staff to see and our partners to see. Uh some visible signs of progress here and helps to get

[8:50] excited for that project moving forward. Uh we did tour another uh local facility to talk uh staffing, just look at their

[8:57] staffing arrangements and how that could uh work with ours. uh human resources staff joined us on that meet just to get

[9:04] a better understanding of what that could look like. Uh we're also working with our our legal folks on uh

[9:10] finalizing some membership agreements with our partners and we have four agencies that have uh uh submitted

[9:16] letters of interest to uh to sign on to those membership agreements as capital members which is our highest tier of

[9:21] membership. So good to see the progress there. Uh, one note on a public safety

[9:28] foundation grant from back in May. They helped to um sponsor two of our officers, Carrie Work and Brian Smith uh

[9:35] out at National Police Week in Washington DC. They were part of the uh law enforcement uh bike ride uh from I

[9:43] believe it's Atlantic City, New Jersey into Washington DC about 250 miles over

[9:48] four days. So, uh, probably a little bit of soreness there, but they got there and were part of the Candela vigil and,

[9:54] uh, great to have them represent RPD out there. A little bit more meaning this year with Burnsville officers being

[10:00] recognized on the wall, um, back in May.

[10:06] And then, uh, a snapshot of some of our training and development in April, May, and June. There's a lot of bullet

[10:12] points, a lot of uh, acronyms there. Um the point here is just the the variety

[10:17] of skill sets that our staff um stays on top of. So quarter one is a lot of our

[10:22] mandatory training to uh keep our licenses um uh active with firearms

[10:29] training, defensive tactics. About 80% of our staff is sworn staff, which means we uh have to fulfill all of the post uh

[10:37] training requirements. But as we move through the year, we can move into some of these more specialized uh trainings and assignments. Um, and we've also

[10:44] worked with our communication staff here in Lakefield to uh, put out some videos on social media to um, talk through some

[10:50] pieces of equipment that maybe the community has more questions on and what the uh, equipment does and sometimes

[10:56] more importantly what it does not do. So, you can look for some of those videos out on social media.

[11:04] Moving into uh, a few statistical slides here are quarter two uh, case files. These are police reports uh, actually

[11:11] generated. we were uh up a little bit from 2024, up about 100 uh police

[11:17] reports. And then uh this is a slide we've been showing here for a little over a year,

[11:23] but these are calls that go into dispatch um where the caller is um involved or around some type of mental

[11:29] health crisis. They don't necessarily want a police response. They want some mental health help. So these are steered

[11:35] from dispatch directly to to our crisis response um social services. this number

[11:41] uh 17 calls in quarter two for Lakeville was down significantly from quarter 1 um

[11:46] which you know hopefully could be a good trend. That's a good thing. The real key number that we look at on this is the

[11:52] number of times the police actually end up getting involved. And we've seen uh as you can see here 24% of the time uh

[11:58] that number is hovered right around um you know 20 to 30% where police are involved. So it is doing its job of um

[12:06] you know streamlining that service right to social social services and getting those folks the help that uh that they

[12:12] need on their call for service. And then uh it's it's buried a little

[12:19] bit up top there, but our total calls for service as you can see are down almost 2,000 in quarter 2 from 2024. And

[12:25] a real driving force of that is our medical response. It doesn't mean that we have less medical calls in the city,

[12:31] but with our fire department moving to full-time fire. There's a lot more of of those calls that we are not going to

[12:38] based on their um uh response times and capabilities. So, that's uh I think

[12:43] really positive development citywide. It frees our staff up to do some other things. And then moving down to our

[12:49] mental health related calls are the welfare checks stayed pretty uh consistent and our crisis mental health

[12:54] calls were up a little bit. Some of that's driven by our um liaison that goes out with mental health uh folks

[13:02] after the fact and does some follow-up calls. Those are factored into that 136 number for for 2025.

[13:10] And then more on the traffic side of things, our traffic stops uh were relatively um stable year-over-year.

[13:17] Property property damage crashes were uh about the same. And then our injury crashes were up by about 13. Again,

[13:24] these are crashs where uh one or more occupants reports any type of injury. So, all all levels of injury are

[13:30] included in that number. Then, looking at our comparisons to some

[13:36] of our neighboring agencies and communities there, again, our number 12 uh just over 12,000 pretty comparable to

[13:43] uh Burnsville to the north and a little bit below Egan, a little bit above Apple Valley.

[13:51] And some of the offenses that we look at um at these quarterly reports are driving under the influence uh arrests

[13:57] were up by 20 in in quarter two. Um that's a direct result of uh having some

[14:03] staff that had some time to get out there and be more proactive in uh in enforcing those um offenses. We have uh

[14:11] undergone a lot of training and um and education on the side of uh impairment

[14:17] outside of uh what I would call more traditional alcohol impairment uh with the legalization of of cannabis and

[14:24] prevalence of uh opioids and prescription drugs. Our staff are are doing a lot more in recognizing some of

[14:30] the impairments related to that type of uh impairment as well. uh assaults both aggravated and other

[14:37] were up uh 2025 or over 2024, but property crime property uh related

[14:43] crimes, motor vehicle theft, damage, vandalism uh were down um this year over

[14:50] last. And then finally, just uh a few um snapshots from our social media. On the

[14:57] left there, our recruiting pitch for uh our community service officer position. We found throwing uh puppies in always

[15:03] helps uh with the engagement. In the middle there are some uh photo photographs of our reserves, some

[15:09] different events that they were at. And the far right uh we jumped in, I guess, on the action figure meme trend with the

[15:16] uh stereotypical police officer with a donut and the energy drink. So with

[15:21] that, uh happy to answer any questions that you may have. Okay, council questions, comments.

[15:26] Have a quick one. Yeah. um when you were giving the um information on the training and you

[15:33] mentioned what the first quarter is usually entails is

[15:40] um is that the schedule that every police department goes through or I

[15:46] guess I'm thinking about the four that have signed up and and if you're all on the same schedule or do different

[15:52] departments rotate those trainings. Yeah, I can't say everybody does it the exact same way. That's probably more

[15:59] common than not just because you have to get those in no matter what. So, a lot of people like us just want to make sure

[16:05] that as the year goes by, you don't run out of time or run out of space. One of

[16:10] the advantages with our partnerships is the uh early booking period where you can book that lock up that space in the

[16:18] fall before the preceding year. Uh because that's one of the challenges for us. If we wait too long, that space

[16:23] isn't there. we won't have to worry about that with facility now. So, that will certainly help in that regard.

[16:29] Thank you. I just uh I want to say I know this is not a Q2 thing, but close enough. But I

[16:35] just want to extend my gratitude to the PD csos and reserves for the job during paniprog. It seemed everything went

[16:42] pretty well it seemed like from a public safety standpoint. So, kudos to your team and working with their team. So,

[16:47] thank you. Yes, we appreciate it. We'll have some photos in quarter three. So, yes, I'm glad I could pre preview it for you.

[16:53] Yes, there's more to come. Thank you. All right, moving on to item number six, our consent agenda. These

[16:59] are routine items typically for the council. And Mr. Miller, anything you

[17:05] wanted to highlight? Thank you, mayor. A couple tonight. Uh item 6 I, 6K, 6L, and 6M are all

[17:11] internal policies that um are updates to our personnel policy. The personnel committee did review these and these are

[17:17] basically updates to conform with state statutes that have changed uh changed recently. And then item 6J is a

[17:23] professional services agreement with RJM Construction. They will serve as our construction manager at the new fire

[17:29] station that is currently in design. Okay. Council, anything you'd like to pull for

[17:36] further discussion? Now, I'll take a motion to approve the Yep. Council member Walter.

[17:41] I move approval of the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Seeing

[17:47] none, all those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? It passes. We move on to 7A,

[17:52] public hearing on application for Joyy's Thai Cuisine for an on sale wine and on sale 32 malt liquor license. And I

[18:00] believe our clerk has just a quick update for us. Yeah. Real quick, um Joyy's Thai Cuisine has

[18:07] been operating under their previous legal entity name as Joyy's Thai Cuisine. They've recently

[18:13] um made a change in their restructuring and now they're going to operate under their

[18:19] new entity name which is Joy Thai Cuisine LLC. They ownership and

[18:24] management of the restaurant will remain the same and they don't see any other changes. Okay. Beauty of the law. Um this is a

[18:33] public hearing. I'll open that now if there's any comment about the license.

[18:39] And seeing none, I'll take a motion to close the public hearing. Make a motion to close the public hearing.

[18:44] Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Opposed.

[18:50] Okay. Public hearing is closed. I will now take a motion or discussion on the

[18:56] change of the name on the light liquor license. Council member Burmel. Uh I move to grant an on sale wine and

[19:03] on sale 3.2% 2% malt liquor license for Joyy's Thai Cuisine LLC

[19:10] located at 770460th Street West. Okay. Is there a second?

[19:17] Second. Okay. Any further discussion? Okay. Roll call, please.

[19:23] Folk I. Helier. I. Burmal I. Walter. I. Okay. Congratulations to those guys.

[19:29] Thanks for your continued investment in our community. Uh, moving on to item B. ordinance amending title 10 and 11 of

[19:35] the city code and summary ordinance for publication. And I'll have our community development director, Miss Good Road,

[19:40] tee this up. And just as a a background, this was maybe she'll talk about it, but

[19:45] some of these things came out of a conversation that I had had with our development community about a year ago, I would guess, where we had a round

[19:52] table with um some builders thinking about how we can better serve to do some

[19:57] things uh related to actually some of the things we're already doing in areas just in PUB and and others. So, I'll

[20:03] turn over to you for the update. Thank you. Um, good evening, mayor, members of the, um, council. Um, and as

[20:10] the mayor said, um, this is work um, in this ordinance that came out of, um, a

[20:15] lot of those past discussions. So, before you this evening are amendments to title 10, the subdivision section,

[20:21] and title 11, the zoning ordinance. Again, just a little bit of history. A lot of these initiatives come from our

[20:28] comprehensive plan. Um and things that we're seeing um change with that future plan. Um part of it's just part of our

[20:35] annual development regulation review and amendment. We usually come before you a couple of times a year with some

[20:40] amendments. And then last summer we did have a pretty deep dive discussion with about 10 of our local builders um both

[20:47] local as well as national builders that are very active in Lakeville. and we just kind of had a heart-to-heart conversation about what are things that

[20:54] we could do to our code to make it a little bit easier to build housing. Um, we also brought these ideas to the

[21:01] planning commission in a work session in December and then a follow-up work session in January which basically was

[21:07] the content for what this ordinance began. Um, we did pause as we were waiting to see what might happen through

[21:14] the last legislative session. Nothing did come out of that, but we felt we were ready to move forward with our

[21:19] ordinances. So, I'll go through and highlight and then if you have questions um on the specifics, um the work was

[21:26] prepared by our planning consultant, Dan L. He provided a very detailed memo that was both in the planning commission

[21:31] packet as well as in your packet. Um that kind of digs a little deeper than I'm kind of covering tonight. Um but one

[21:39] of the first things that the ordinance does is it eliminates that extra size garage for dwellings without basements.

[21:45] That was probably one of the top things the builders brought up. The requirement is unique to Lakeville. Builders usually

[21:52] have to work through some kind of Lakeville specific design to provide for that. And so the recommendation from

[21:58] both planning commission council was to move that back down to 440 um for those types of structures. Um so that change

[22:05] um has been made. In addition to that, in some of our larger lot residential districts, we do require right now a

[22:12] site plan that allows for the third car garage stall. just to prove that out. We

[22:18] don't believe that ordinance is necessary. These lots are all of the sufficient size to accommodate for that.

[22:26] The next thing we looked at is our lot sizes and what can we do to make it a little bit easier um little less hoops

[22:33] to jump through to have the smaller lots. So right now in our RS4 by

[22:39] conditional use or I'm sorry by our RS2 district which is on the left hand side

[22:44] the RS2 allows by conditional use permit um the ability to do 7500 square foot

[22:50] lots. We wanted to change that, make it a little bit more flexible. And so the proposal is on the right, making RST2

[22:57] 7500 square feet or 55 foot wide lots by right without having that cup. And then

[23:03] we added it to the RS4. That one we did keep as um a cup. This just makes um it

[23:12] a little bit easier in some of our districts to do the smaller lots. Again, we really work hard with developers as

[23:18] we're going through the sketch plan review, as we're going through the plumary plat review to have a mixture of

[23:24] lots, but it does allow that. Um, by eliminating that cup in the one

[23:29] district, it allows it's one less hurdle to jump through. Within that cup language was a lot of other criteria. We

[23:37] still have um language in here in the amendment that requires, you know, quality design, particularly curve

[23:44] linear streets. One of the concerns staff has with, you know, a development that might come in with a whole row of

[23:50] all 75s, you're going to look down, it's going to look like a tunnel. And so, we want to have that language in there. We

[23:56] work hard to get that, but when it's an ordinance, it makes it even easier.

[24:01] Um, the next one, um, deals with exterior materials. Um, we took out the

[24:06] requirement that you have to use brick or stone on the front and added in here that you can allow um or utilize

[24:13] engineer wood or cement fiber sighting, also known as Hardy board, as one of those requirements. You can also vary

[24:21] the type and texture material. So, you could have um um two different styles of

[24:26] the Hardy board to count for that major material. So, think farmhouse style

[24:31] design. You can't do a full farmhouse style design, which is usually a white

[24:37] home with a black outline for the windows or the black frame I should call

[24:42] it for the windows. You can't do that under the code um at the top because the

[24:47] requirement for the brick. Oftentimes those will have a couple of different styles, shake and cedar um style um

[24:54] types of elevation versus the brick. So this ordinance would allow that.

[25:00] other amendments. Um we modified the base lot provisions. Um there's a lot of contradictory requirements and it also

[25:08] um results in less effective use of the property. So we simplify the base lot

[25:14] provisions. So it allows a better utilization of land and it's just simply simply simple to read on the developer

[25:22] side. I should be able to talk tonight on the developer side as well as when we're interpreting um all of these

[25:28] different plots. Um, next one is to utilize the RM3 standards in the RH

[25:34] districts when it comes to town homes. That's just something that's simply missing. Um, so having that reference

[25:39] and making it clear because in the RH you can still do town homes. And then eliminating the RH district transition

[25:46] requirements um using single family or two family. The ordinance really just requires a tier or a row of town homes

[25:53] to serve as that transition. And then eliminating um the minimum area for PUDS. This is something that's been in

[25:59] the ordinance for a long time. And what we're finding is as we are developing, we're dealing with smaller lots or

[26:06] smaller infill developments. And then also on the west side of 35, we're going to have some tricky sites, topography,

[26:13] trees, wetlands, and so forth. So we want to make the use of PUDS more

[26:19] flexible. Again, not a mandate. I understand there was a lot of conversation in the legislation

[26:24] regarding PUDS. This just simply allows a developer to request that. We still

[26:29] have to review it. Still has to meet the PUD criteria, but it does loosen up the ability to utilize those. So, that is

[26:37] the gist of the changes that really affect kind of what we've coined that missing middle or ability to broaden the

[26:44] housing market um across um different price ranges. The other code update is

[26:51] just our regular stuff that we run into on a daily basis that just needs to get fixed. um encroachments. That was

[26:57] actually a code change that we did a couple of meetings ago. Um in the subdivision ordinance, we identified um

[27:03] with the help of um Attorney Pal some variance process criteria that we needed to update. Um making sure it's very

[27:10] clear in the ordinance that street extensions have to go to the plat boundary. And then just other things

[27:16] within the zoning ordinance regarding administration of cups and IUPs. um

[27:21] broadening the ability of commercial exterior finishes to also utilize that

[27:27] engineered wood um fixing some ant right away for antennas. Um you can see the

[27:34] list there and then um switching data centers as a cup in the OP district. So

[27:40] that's kind of a catchall for all of those other additional code changes um

[27:45] that are tied together um in one ordinance with the missing bill. So, it's all um the subdivision portion is

[27:52] at the front of the ordinance followed by the zoning ordinance update and I would stand for any questions.

[27:59] Okay. Council questions, comments. Council Walter, um can you explain the antenna thing a

[28:04] little bit to me? What kinds of antennas are those? Of course you're going to ask me on them that one.

[28:11] And I'm not sure if that was something um that was actually something that um

[28:17] city attorney brought up um

[28:22] dealing with um placement of antennas within rights away um dealing with um

[28:30] the requirements for cups. So it's described on page nine of the memo.

[28:37] I'm going to look to what kind of Miss Taylor, she recalls why those

[28:42] amendments were they weren't consistent with uh state law. State law. Okay. So, we had to

[28:48] clean that up a little bit and it's small cell wireless as I recall kept were being amended just the small cells.

[28:56] Thanks. Okay. Would you just um talk a little

[29:03] bit about the multifamily as permitted use in the RHCBD district? Yeah, that was something that um wasn't

[29:10] clear as a permitted use. So, making sure that it's clear as a permitted use

[29:17] in the downtown district. Got it. Yep. Any other I'll just offer a comment on this. I

[29:23] want to applaud you, Mr. Mayor, on this issue. Um this housing in the middle middle housing issue has been a big

[29:30] issue in the legislature the last couple of years and um with some scrutiny of of

[29:35] communities like Lakeville and you said let's meet with the local developers and roll up our sleeves and figure out what

[29:41] we can do to address this rather than waiting for the um legislation at the state level that still has not come

[29:48] fortunately. So anyway, I just I I think this is a these are sensible uh updates and changes and it's it's a nice way to

[29:56] show that the city of Lakeville is working with our developers and focused on that housing issue. So, thank you,

[30:03] Councilman Burma. I want to make a a similar comment. Um kudos. Uh this involves builders, it

[30:10] involves uh city staff. Uh and it's the process. I want people to understand the

[30:16] process wasn't just like oh hey you know a week ago we thought let's look at this. This has been over a year of

[30:22] conversation and uh just give and take and reaching

[30:27] consensus and it's seem it's well considered and and there's nothing in here that's unreasonable. Um so I'm uh I

[30:35] share my colleagues uh uh kudos for uh for everybody that was

[30:42] involved in the process. I'll just say that the one thing I think is really important um for us to be

[30:49] proactive because you know as council member Walter and Burma mentioned some of the stuff that's happening in the legislature. You know one of the things

[30:55] that the legislature thinks is a really good idea is taking away the ability for the public to weigh in on these types of

[31:00] projects. They want to eliminate public comment. And I think that us structuring,

[31:06] you know, some to be a little bit forward thinking and be an example to help protect some of those things like public comment and some of the other

[31:12] crazy things that the legislaturator's proposed, I think is important. So, I'm glad that we can kind of try to lead on

[31:18] this issue, certainly with, you know, being one of the faster growing cities in the last couple years. With that, I

[31:25] will take a motion to approve. Council member Burma.

[31:30] I move to approve an ordinance amending title 10 and title 11 of the city code

[31:36] and a summary ordinance for publication. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Any further discussion?

[31:44] Okay. Roll call, please. Burmel. I. Walter. I. Vulk.

[31:49] I. Helier. I. Thank you. And thanks to staff for all your work with the everybody on the,

[31:54] you know, planning commission and community to help make this happen. Um, moving on. Unfinish and new

[32:00] business. Seeing none, um, our next city council meeting is Monday, August 18th here at

[32:06] city hall. Our next work session is August 25th in the Marian conference room. And with that, I'll take a motion

[32:12] to adjurnn. I'll move to adjurnn. Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I.

[32:18] I. I. Opposed. We'rejourned.