AnalysisCompleteTuesday, May 12, 2026

Eden Prairie — Transcript

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Prairie Bluff Commons Residential Development

Minnesota River Vista Overlook

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Motion carried (unanimous)

Um we're excited to be here tonight uh with what is a what seems to be a rare opportunity for residential in Eden Prairie. So, um we're presenting uh Prairie Bluff Commons.

Josh Metzer [00:04:15]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal

Um townhomes probably targeted towards um buyers in their 30s, 40s. They could be single people, uh young families. Um even we've we've seen some uh empty nesters or snowbirds uh purchasing our townhomes. The villas will be age-targeted uh to 50 and up.

Josh Metzer [00:07:34]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal

Um we're close to the airport, so um our windows will be glazed for noise attenuation on the inside. Um we'll we'll be sure to meet city standard on that. Um residents will be required to sign a disclosure, which states that you are near an airport, there will be noise.

Josh Metzer [00:10:04]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal

Staff reviewed the waivers and and kind of looking at our code in terms of what our goals are with the flexibility from a PUD perspective and we're looking for a project that enhances um or meets certain goals of the city in this situation. It exceeds our required open space requirements. Project also exceeds our landscaping and buffering requirements between different land uses. And this project also does meet certain housing goals in terms of not just the inclusionary and affordable housing, but just a housing style because we don't do a lot of town homes as as Josh had mentioned earlier.

Jeremy [00:15:37]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal

I mean our our dues in our HOA are 525 a month and we do everything we can to keep the dues low there. So, I'm just I'm just not seeing any way that the math could work out to have low 200s dues dues there.

John Miller [00:27:03]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal

I think that the applicant um Wha- while they're certainly maximizing the uh density of the site opportunities in the zoning districts that they're changing it to um with the uh park and open space that they have scattered around uh at their areas and the street system which apparently uh serves this redevelopment concept quite well. Um In terms of handling the additional traffic um I'm in support of this.

Commissioner Farr [00:30:17]
Prairie Bluff Commons Development Proposal