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City Council Update: July 1, 2025

Rosemount City CouncilThursday, July 17, 2025
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[Music] Hey everyone, it's Logan with the lowdown from this week's city council meeting. We've got two important items to talk about this weekend, so we'll dive right in. First, the city council discussed an application by Tracked LLC, which is a developer that was considering a technology park on the east side of town and the fact that they withdrew an application to the city for a comprehensive guide plan land use amendment that would have been considered at the July 1st city council meeting. Tracked met with the developer at the June work session. At that work session, the city council gave some feedback that it didn't quite align with their vision at this time for what would occur or could occur on the east side of town. As such, the developer made the decision to withdraw their application. Again, the comprehensive guide plan is an opportunity to to work with the community, our planning commission, and cast a vision for the city in the future. The city council gave direction to the developer and to city staff that they would rather wait, discuss the long-term vision for the east side of town in a holistic manner and not alter the long range plan for the east side of town at this moment. Here on council, we're really trying to work with our residents on what our shared vision is for this town. We appreciated our colleagues in the planning commission doing their job, doing their due diligence, the staff working with it, and at this time it just wasn't something that some of us felt comfortable moving forward with. So, this is again a good reminder that not all developments that are considered in the city occur. Not all developments that are applied for actually receive city council approval. So, just a reminder to be patient and development is truly a long and winding road. Next, the city council amended its 2025 schedule of rates and fees. This is a bit of a wonky thing that doesn't occur very often, but wanted to flag it for the community's attention for an important reason. A change was made to the rates and fees to update our schedule of fines for lawn watering violations. The city council has given staff some direction to be a bit more proactive on finding and addressing lawn watering violations throughout the community. This is driven by the fact that our water pumping rates spike dramatically in the summertime due to watering your grass. We pump about three to four times more water in the summertime than we do in the winter, reaching a peak day of 9 million gallons in some very hot July, August days. A reminder that the city of Rosemount's requirement for watering grass is odd even days in alignment with your address and no watering is allowed from noon to 6:00. that water evaporates so quickly in the heat of the summer, it does not reach your roots and it does not help your grass to grow. And starting on July 14th, we will be actually issuing fines when we do happen to see violations of the aforementioned rules when it comes to watering. So, thanks for your attention to this. It's a really critical water conservation piece as we all look to protect Minnesota's natural resources. So, that's it from this week's city council meeting. Thanks for tuning in and we'll see you next time.