CompletedCity Council Work Session March 18, 2025

City Council Work Session March 18, 2025

Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 4:18 PMActual: Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 4:18 PM

1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Meeting Topics 3.1. Park Planning Updates: Fred Richards Park Master Plan and Braemar Park Master Plan 4. Adjournment   Where to Watch: Meetings of the Edina City Council are typically held 7 p.m. the first and third Tuesdays of the month in Edina City Hall, 4801 W. 50th St. The Council holds other special meetings from time to time. Meetings of the Edina City Council are shown live on Edina TV and the City’s website. They are rebroadcast on Edina TV at 3 a.m. and 11 a.m. Sundays and Wednesdays, and 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Saturdays until the Council’s next meeting. Edina TV is available to Comcast subscribers (https://www.xfinity.com/) on Channel 813 (high definition) and Channel 16 (standard definition).   Listen Online: Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/6Xz19PKI4KRbV1CBjOKDHz?si=f8c977f118ad426f) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/edina-city-council-meetings/id1760404514) YouTube  (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlz4oOYMFxF-E7lwoGL2RHd38IO2fLVM2) Amazon Music (https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/36681e98-f083-4c32-9ba4-085727009b8f/edina-city-council) Pandora (https://www.pandora.com/podcast/edina-city-council/PC:1001090290) To learn more about the Edina City Council, visit EdinaMN.gov/citycouncil.  

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Published Wednesday, March 19, 2025

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[0:00] okay it's uh 5:30 we can start the city council work session for Tuesday March 18th [0:06] 2025 and uh Clon please call the council member ad here council member here counc [0:13] member Pierce here council member here mayor H here uh we've got a singular [0:20] topic tonight and that is Park planing updates um I think it'll be an exciting [0:26] evening for all of us different presenters but um some really good things going on with respect to Fred [0:31] Richards Park master plan and the Brar master plan so eager to hear about [0:37] things from staff perspective and Perry veter turn it over to you first and let you lead lead it off yeah thank you [0:44] mayor and Council uh this evening we are going to go over some updates for those two uh Park planning initiatives and [0:50] just a reminder these were um um Master plans that had existed for some time [0:55] however they have catapulted in action after the successful ref ROMs for the local option sales tax um with that [1:03] we're going to have uh Rachel um finberg give us an update as well as Tom ssson [1:08] and myself as we kind of navigate through so um we're going to take them kind of in three chunks we're going to [1:13] talk about uh Brar Park specifically the Brar Arena then we'll talk about the Brar Park uh Park and natural resources [1:20] section and then we'll talk about Fred Richards Park so we'll have an opportunity to kind of pause in between those so um we can address anything as [1:27] we kind of go through those uh sequences how's that sound awesome okay uh [1:33] Rachel's going to kick us off all right so um really wanted to start with this slide just to talk a little bit about [1:39] our our project process and kind of how um as we move along in this process um [1:46] comments and our influence to changes end up costing us more so this is really [1:51] why it's important that we engage both with the community and with Council very early in these projects so we can get [1:57] the right trajectory going and um limit our change orders and things like that further down the line for those changes [2:04] um so we're at um different points in these projects so Fred Richards Park is [2:11] right now kind of in two separated projects um so our site and Landscaping [2:17] has moved to about 90% construction documents so this is the layouts the [2:22] Civil the landscape um and then our Fred Richards facility and buildings are a little bit [2:28] earlier in this process kind of the reason for this disconnect and timeline is we really needed to figure out [2:34] feasibility in the site layout be before we really could approach the buildings themselves um and we're glad kind of [2:41] that we took this approach because we ended up kind of going a different direction with the buildings which we'll talk about later um and then the Brar [2:49] Park project is a little bit further down the line kind of the reasoning be behind this is these had a lot more what [2:56] I'm going to call…

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