Want to publicly congratulate Mr. Ethan for completing his probation who has been a great addition to the public works team and truly appreciate his work and is here.

The PUD and application, the PUD application and cup are inadequate and should include stronger conditions that ensure public health and safety. The only reason to push this project through without ensuring safeguards is money. Corporations have always chosen profit over people.

Residents were simply asking the city leadership to pause his data center project and until critical questions were answered such as electricity, generator, cooling, emissions, noise, etc. Why are you being so naive? City leadership is simply being taken advantage of and is being blinded by running companies propaganda of full-blown lies, lack of information, misleading information, and verbal promises.

I do want to support the project Skyway with everything I have as a father, husband, grandson, and son. This is a an economic opportunity for our community. It will create construction jobs for skilled trades people who already live in this community and want to continue their careers soon. It does that by providing work close to home.

Project Skyway is truly an investment into the future of P Island and this is exactly the type of thing you should be looking for as elected officials. Developers have addressed construction traffic. They have addressed light pollution. They've addressed water usage. And they have addressed noise pollution. And in reading through the documents, every single one of it is below thresholds as set by the state of Minnesota.

the order of the annexation agreement also allows for the township to request a certain price um per acre for reimbursement for loss taxes. Um since that would be land gets moved into city limits. they start paying city taxes, the township loses out on that tax revenue.

The legislature has said that once an application is made of this type. There are deadlines for action. And just to be clear, I know you know this, but to be clear, it's not as though a city that fails to meet those deadlines is just acting outside the law and might be sued over it. It's that the law says if you fail to act, the approval is granted.

Our Pen Island Fire Relief Association um through their charitable gambling um donates a portion of that money to the city every year. Um the city then accepts that in um to be used on expenses for the fire department throughout the year.

all right in candidates who intend to receive votes during the election must notify, um, the chief election um, officer at least 19 days prior to the election. Um, just so we know that there will bein candidates. We know who to look for when we're looking through writein um, options.

These numbers measure the potential impact of construction and operation of the data center in a good economy. Um these numbers will vary depending on the potential employees who decide to live in Pine Island. This also goes for um construction workers, but at least limited the economic impact will be limited um by how many uh construction workers decide to live in Pine Island or currently live in Pine Island.

it is important to consider what the current housing stock availability is and vacancy rate. If it is under 5% already, then you do have um what is considered a housing shortage and therefore the projected number of people who are able to live here um will be significantly smaller as they won't be able to find a home to live.

if a residential and commercial property were both valued at $500,000. And how that gets broken down, as you can see, the residential, uh, property would be $4,100 in uh, city taxes... And then the commercial, as you can see, is 7,585. Um, so it's nearly double the amount of city taxes for commercial versus residential, which is why it's so important that we continue to grow commercially, not just residentially because if you grow too much residential versus commercial, that tax uh the taxes the tax burden is pushed off onto the residents rather than the commercial bid.

the current taxable market value for all existing commercial and industrial property in 2025 of Pine Island was $47,640,200. Um, so the taxable market value would nearly double for commercial industrial the first phase that's being proposed.

the purpose of light industrial district is to provide for an area for industrial light manufacturing and office uses that are generally non-intrusive and which they serve as a transition between intensive sites and residential and business land uses. Um the city finds that this is consistent with um the city staff finds that this is consistent with the proposal before you.

this the staff inclusion that's now supported by unanimous vote of the planning commission is that in effect the IQ district is the closest and most compatible district for the uses that are being proposed here and I will just tell you based on what you see in your pack of the overarching language about what the purpose for your I2 zone is I think that's absolutely correct right your I2 zone um is intended for light industrial which your code then describes in a couple of ways.

The reason that we have 11 uh conditions that are shown um basically the first condition that we had for the uh preliminary plat to the planning commission was that they the developer show include all the appropriate approvals and signature blocks on the um on the title page for the final plat. Uh that condition was met so that we removed that condition um as a condition of approval.

in regards to say the uh number five here with a public facility easement, do we have to specify under there the uh provisions with a loop coming back to county 11 and a rightway easement for that or

The key thing that the plat opinion does is identify all of those interests, easements, mortgages, other types of interests that folks may have in addition to outright ownership of the property. And that that will all have to be satisfied.

the original development plan had an exemption from the noise standards for um emergency power generation generation testing maintenance um so generator testing things like that um and maintenance on the facility that has been removed. Um there would be no exception for that. Uh those um testing and maintenance would occur during normal business hours as laid out in the resolution and would comply with uh those noise standards.

any future phase will meet MPCA standards at the time of building permit. Um so they the current MPCA standards that are approved now would not oftent times whatever is approved at the beginning of the development would continue on with the property um be grandfathered in as we go. um that was not our intention. Um and we wanted to make sure that those standards were were continuously updated.

what Pine Island does is we grant the PUB by conditional use permit. You have got in conditional use permit requirements. You'll have to be met and the staff has laid out the reasons why they're met here. Uh but you you do your PUDS by granting a C. That's what's a little bit unique is maybe an overstatement. It's not unique. There are plenty of cities that do it that way. I think the predominant approach is to literally do it by reszoning, but it is legal to do it by C and that's the way you do it.

The development agreement includes an estimation of costs um that Craig has reviewed um the estimated cost of about $16 million for those infrastructure um improvements as well as financial uh securities that are provided to the city. Um in the event that those are not completed by the developer um they provide us with financial securities that it can be completed.

It is very very common for developers to resist or flat out refuse to enter agreements regarding improvement paying for improvements off the site of the development. Uh that is not the case here. Brian has agreed to I think essentially everything that we've asked for with respect to off-site improvements.

for the year 2026, we budgeted three separate projects at the city shop. And this is one of the three um replacement overhead over larger just get our equipment in. We got three quotes or three separate codes. The one for construction put new header in and then the door costing the whole electrical and it comes with 17,83 but just looking for your approval to proceed with this project.