“I think the service agreement is very good about providing us information regarding process and standards it's very um Limited in terms of actual metrics and I'm thinking it would be so helpful because this is a visible entity that we support in the city of Edina um if we were to get information that perhaps is presented to the board on an annual basis”

“I think um council member Risser raises some very good questions that we don't really have answers for a lot of those kinds of questions we just haven't had the kind of tight relationship with the Historical Society over the years um it would be nice if we were going to be a bigger Financial booster and contributor to the site that we get some kind of presence on their board of directors”

“I was a senior Captain this year and uh yeah Winning State this year was definitely the best feeling um just being with these girls so fun and I wouldn't have asked for a better team with A better ending”

“this year was definitely very different because we faced a lot of adversity just throughout this season and we weren't even sure if we were going to make it out of sections just because BSM was such a great team so that made the whole experience of winning State just so that much better”

“I think this year uh the state championship was pretty special to everyone on the team as Taylor said we faced some adversity and um had the most losses in in any d a season in a really long time so I think a lot of PE we were The Underdogs going into the tournament and I think um the state champ made the state championship that much worth it because we had to work harder than everybody else and prove everybody else wrong”

“on behalf of our uh emergency responders uh we appreciate uh your recognition of National Emergency uh or national EMS week uh and all the work that our emergency responders do our emergency response starts with our emergency dispatchers who are often giving critical advice to uh the caller during an emergency as they are dispatching our police officers who are First Responders and then our firefighter paramedics”

“we're talking about 880,000 truckloads of dirt that are going to be moved around on the project 14 miles of storm sewer um not all of that was ours some of it is uh local municipalities they're working with but uh that's a big number as well 4,000 truckloads 80,000 tons of pinous Paving Paving and 50 football field fields of concrete Paving which is really significant for an urban area”

“you mentioned 64th Street and when we talked with residents in that area about redoing the streets they were very concerned about the coordination and also making sure that our brand new streets when additional work is done don't get damaged so can you talk a little bit about the care that you're going to take with our brand new 64th Street when you put in the sound wall and the bridge”

“we're really at the early stages of our work we're in I guess I would call it the early design kind of pre post scoping phase and so we're really kind of putting major lines on the map I think the most important thing right now is to make sure we're not we're doing things in cooperation with the pedestrian bridge project um and where our noise wall might be and that they're supportive of each other”

“if Zillow plus ancestry.com had a baby it would be a house novel so it's been a really fun ride and it's a great way to preserve all the real moments that make a house a home and so this summer when you're having fun on the 4th of July or whatever holidays coming forth make sure to capture all those magical moments with your family and upload them to house.com”

“we have 24,000 home records in the nation so far and continually growing and so we're excited to keep partnering with the Heritage society as well as other public resources to grow it as much as possible and hopefully become the Nations go to home history resource”

“as we look across this there is limited staff capacity to tackle 200 plus actions that's a lot to do between 2021 and 2030 I I do want a knowledge you know 50% is already underway that's a lot of low hanging fruit those are a lot of easy actions and so there's there's bigger lifts on the horizon here as we look to our 2030 goals”

“as we think about really where do we want to be putting our staff time future resources potential policies to achieve our our climate goals we really need to focus on those transportation and building sector to really truly reduce greenhouse gas emissions”

“folks can go to our website and we have uh actions you can take organized by homeowners by renters um and kind of as you think about yourself as an individual in how might that apply um but briefly I think three immediate things folks can be thinking about is first get a home energy Squad visit is a home energy audit that they will come to your home um home owners and renters in one to four units can participate and the City of V din covers 50% of the cost so it's only $50 for ad Diner residents to participate”

“we saw a lot of things that we really didn't feel were healthy in the restaurant space um and so unfortunately there's a lot of alcohol abuse there's a lot of drug abuse there's a lot of things when you have people working in close proximity with a lot of uh Temptations let us say so we really decided to make it our mission in this business to do things differently um so we dedicate uh a portion of our sales really uh mainly focused in helping out Hospitality workers in need”

“Brian always says when you take money out of a community you need to be willing to give it back and that's really our mission not just uh our Hospitality community that we're a part of but the greater communities we go into”

“we're super excited um to open up our southa location is Tech infused mini golf so it's the first self-scoring mini golf um it's a globally inspired menu we've got everything from Burgers to Wood Fired octopus um ready to offer the the citizens of a dino we're just we're really excited to to get this one open”

“right now we're looking at um early September we should have significant completion of the of the venue by uh early um Ju July but it's going to take we we take a lot of pride in our training process um we should be employing around uh 200 Associates at this location um so it takes us a little bit of time to get them up to speed and we like to do that in a finished venue”

“a city is a living entity and if a home was built in 1950 when a person's born in 1950 they're they're new and shiny and a home is new and shiny and that's almost 75 years ago now and over time we all age and buildings age and cities age and the wonderful thing about cities is that they can rebuild themselves”

“I do not see this PUD ask as reasonable I also feel that we are at a point where we need to really be more purposeful and mindful about what we're losing when we abandon our code um these sites are not large enough to um accommodate the proposed development and retain the required setback variances and that means we are going to end up with structures that will occupy 40% of the land and if you look at our code for R2 um double dwelling units can only occupy 25%”

“I don't like using PUD to do that um and I I a couple weeks ago I I used the term spot zoning and you answered my question that it's technically not spot zoning uh but what we would end up doing is if there's another the another house another development opportunity to do the same thing we'd have to apply for a PUD again um and so I like to kind of step back and think strategically about an area”

“I just really dislike pey for this use case um I I think especially hearing from members of the community after watching the Planning Commission meeting after this dialogue it just doesn't feel like the right application and I I say all that because I'm not a against PUD like I I really like PUD and I'm I'm not necessarily thinking that we need to use it less I like that it's a tool in our toolbox but I think we we need to be really intentional of when we use it and how we use it”

“I think about what if we had applied that kind of philosophy to accessory dwelling units and um did not go down a real thoughtful careful plan that made it possible for us to move forward in a way that will protect neighbor ing properties um what if we had just said oh you know well we don't have a Adu ordinance let's just consider this another garage”

“I remember when we um thought U comprehensively about the uh demolition of that apartment building where the eight town houses are presently located and I can distinctly remember thinking okay you got the uh you got this apartment building I think there was one house to the north that was included in the building pad we will for the eight cond or eight town houses and I I remember thinking at the time all right uh this is okay this this makes sense get rid of this tired old apartment building it looks like it's from uh Miami Beach from 1954 and and put up these beautiful tow houses but I also remember thinking I don't want to see anybody come back and try to encroach further into the neighborhood”

“I just want to say thank you for listening to our comments at sketch plan I so impressed with how you were able to accommodate the privacy of your patients and their convenience and our zoning requirements is was really kind of when you came back I was really surprised and pleased I just wanted to say thank you for that and traffic flow and traffic flow yes yes much safer”

“I remember early on when I was I think I just got to be a mayor and um we were doing a plan for the southill district and the Weston project came up before we were done with the plan so was it going to fit the plan or not fit the plan I don't know but we had to take it on because he didn't want to wait because market conditions and we took it on and approved the the Weston project and and then the saltdale plan kind of followed suit but I don't I don't personally feel like taking you know I think you would describe it well uh making use of an area of a of a surface parking lot to create something that's really beneficial to our community and will be an enhancement is something that ties us to a certain standard it will exist there but what can exist around it over time will maybe be something more akin to what you're thinking about”