CompletedCity Council Retreat March 15, 2025
City Council Retreat March 15, 2025
Date: Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6:08 PMActual: Monday, March 17, 2025 at 6:08 PM
1. Call to Order 2. Roll Call 3. Meeting Topics 3.1. City Council Retreat 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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e all right welcome everybody to the April 11th 2024 City viina Planning Commission meeting on behalf of the rest of the Planning Commission we're grateful you're here in person or those tuning in remotely I'll say it every time but your curiosity your participation your feedback is vital as we navigate change together here in Nina specifically regarding the ways in which we'd like to use our land uh on that note your input matters we we collect public input through the city's engagement website betterto together.org we commit to you that everything you've submitted has made its way to us and will be considered as we make recommendations tonight uh regarding two specific matters we have two public hearings on the docket I'll get into that process and what to expect later but uh uh until then uh for those who are tuning in remotely and would like to participate in the public hearings you can get ready now uh by joining the virtual queue and waiting room uh please call the number 312 535 8110 and enter access code 2633 139 0260 the password is 545 four and when you'd like to get in the cutest speak you'll push star three I'll go over that again cuz that's really easy to memorize you'll State your full name and address and you'll have three minutes to speak so uh with that we'll get right into the meeting which starts with a call to order and then roll call commissioner El here commissioner Miranda here commissioner Padia here commissioner Smith here commissioner who here commissioner day here commissioner Borstein here commissioner phelp here commissioner hanaman here chair Bennett here all right next we have the approval of tonight's meeting agenda welcome a motion to approve I move to approve the agenda second all those in favor say I I I so moved next we have the approval of the prior meeting minutes and the special work session minutes for March 27th 20 24 uh motion to approve both items anyone motion to approve both second all those in favor say I I I so moved all right next we have the community comment period of the agenda which is your opportunity for anyone who's here in person to speak about a matter not on to tonight's agenda uh similarly you have three minutes to do so please come forward to one of the podium State your full name address and the light turns green when your time starts when it turns Amber you have 30 seconds left and when it's red ask you to wrap up anyone here for Community comment that would like to speak all right we've had kind of a string of people coming in for that and this is the first time without it for a while so all right next we'll move right on to our public hearing so the first one is a comp of plan Amendment rezoning and subdivision for 5120 5124 Hankerson Avenue uh krie Teague our community development director will present and a little bit about this process uh public hearings uh give the chance for any Resident who'd like to speak on this matter to do so uh staff provides a report to us planning Commis…
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[Music] making the switch to an electric vehicle can seem like a big step earlier this month the energy and environment commission hosted an electric vehicle showcase allowing people to get their questions answered by Electric Vehicle owners and dealers Edina TV was there and shares how this event worked toward meeting the city of edina's climate action plan goals [Music] you yes you you've been thinking about getting a new car haven't you ever thought about an EV you know an electric vehicle I get it you don't want to go to a dealer and get a big sales pitch EVS are complicated unreliable and expensive right wrong we've had an EV for 2 years my wife and I both love the EV um it's a better driving EXP experience it's very reliable um we've never had any issues with the battery going down to zero even close John gets it and if you're like him you're concerned about the environment you may even know that in 2019 in Edina alone 41.1% of greenhouse gas emissions came from transportation that means cars just like ours our climate action plan sets a goal for us to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions 45% by 2030 so we want to decart carbonize our transportation sector which can be done by taking less vehicle trips walking biking but another component of that is electric vehicles that's why on Saturday October 5th Edina hosted an electric vehicle event it offered residents the chance to see and touch a wide variety of electric vehicles talk to both experts and local EV owners about their EV experience we're trying to reach Edina neighbors and help folks make those connections still not sold maybe you're worried that it just doesn't have enough mus initially I was focused on the environmental footprint and wanting to do do my part and then I test drove an EV and it's such a better Driving Experience there's more torque it's immediately available at all points in driving you can accelerate out of anything if you need to um it's just more fun to drive hey like the song says The Times They are a changing any Dina is on the Leading Edge of that change moving the gas to electric vehicle needle by only 1% prevents up to 27 50 tons of greenhouse emissions annually our climate action plan aims to have 25% of vehicles needa be fully electric by 2030 the cool thing about EV is the technology is fantastic they're very safe um the range is getting better and the performance is phenomenal I bet you're kind of bummed you miss that event ain't you no problem we got you covered for residents who have questions about electrifying at home putting in an EV charger purchasing EV we have those resources on our City website on the sustainability Pages for actions that residents can take and there's a section within there that talks about electric vehicles and EV charging it's great I think there's good buzz and everybody's excited for what we're trying to do here so I think the future is yeah we'll probably do this again next year maybe by next year instead of being the one as…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty big changes are coming to wannab din's oldest hotels the Marriott Residence Inn located at Edinburgh way and 78th Street will soon be converted into affordable apartments Alpha Investment Group plans to transform the 133 unit Hotel into a 136 unit apartment building the conversion will focus on maximizing what's already there with no major expansions to the building the only site changes will be adding Landscaping along Edinburgh way and 78th Street to improve screening for the parking lot originally built as part of the mixed use Edinburgh development it opened as a corporate-owned Hawthorne suit with 142 guest units today the hotel has 133 guest units seven Studios 119 one bedroom and 7 two-bedroom units the plans to create three additional Apartments includes repurposing a storage unit and separating spaces previously combined during an earlier remodeling project Alpha plans for the new apartments to be what's known as naturally occurring affordable housing monthly rents are projected to be 1,1 00 for studios and 1,250 for one-bedroom units we're excited from the standpoint that we can deliver rentable units in a very quick way where we're not waiting years and we don't got funding delays and all the stuff you would associate with a project that's going to be affordable to a lot of people right in the immediate Southdale area that come in here for employment work on the project is scheduled to begin soon Alpha hopes to make the units available for rent and move in by mid2 25 the human rights and relations commission recently honored a group of dedicated Educators at South View Middle School the commission presented the 2024 Tom oi award to Edina unified and Educators Jenny schaer Rachel Cana and Whitney brocka Edina unified is a program that brings neurotypical students into special education classrooms to build meaningful authentic relationships between students the youth work shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers who have varying needs fostering understanding and inclusion the Educators grew the offerings from classes like physical education to special events like a dance for both special education students and their unified friends and other activities you know people have different struggles and it might be special education struggles mental health struggles like anything and it's made my my child and I think others who participated in the program more intuitive about how they regard their fellow humans so they might be a little more understanding of someone who has different social skills or different physical abilities um I also think that by being part of this program and having these real true friendships these kids are going to go forth in life and this is all because of what these leaders have really encouraged Ed in them and look at where can they make space in their communities in their workplaces i…
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e e all right all right all right how's everyone doing tonight good I heard a whisper good that that'll do all right so welcome everybody to the Wednesday June 26th 2024 City viina Planning Commission meeting on behalf of the rest of the Planning Commission we are excited you are here tonight um with for all you in person and anyone tuning in remotely that kind of Engagement the Curiosity your feedback all of that's vital to this process as we navigate change together here in Idina specifically in regards to how we use our land I'll give you a quick rundown of the agenda so you know what to expect and when we get to certain items of the agenda I'll provide a little more context uh first we'll start with a call to order then roll call and we'll hit an approval of the meeting agenda and the prior meeting's minutes then we have the community comment period which is your chance as a citizen to speak about a matter not onto tonight's agenda and you'll have the opportunity to do so at one of the podium here then we do not have any public hearings tonight instead we just have one sketch plan review in our reports and recommendations section and we wrap up every meeting with chair and member comments and staff comments before adjournment uh before we start just want to reiterate that we are committed and the city is committed to your feedback getting it in a variety of ways the top one is our engagement website better together.org this didn't really exist a few years ago and this is the that net that captures a lot of what's going on in the city and that's the interface for any curious resident about a project a lot of potential projects and ongoing ones are on there including the sketch plan for tonight so residents have an idea of what we're about to talk to talk about and uh if we get any feedback through email it gets our it gets its way to us and we will we consider it before we make any recommendations again we have nothing binding tonight uh without a public hearing so tonight is just the sketch plan so without without further Ado we will move right into the meeting so call the meeting to order and then roll call please commissioner elire here commissioner Miranda here commissioner Padia here commissioner Smith here commissioner Schultz here commissioner Bornstein here commissioner felt here chair Bennett here thank you next we have the approval of tonight's meeting agenda if there are no proposed changes I'd welcome a motion motion to approve tonight's agenda second all those in favor say I I so moved next we have the approval of the prior meeting's minutes from June 12th of 2024 same thing if there's no proposed changes I'd welcome a motion approve I second all those in favor say I I I so moved all right next we have like I mentioned the community comment period of tonight's agenda and that is your opportunity for anyone who is here in person that would like to speak about a matter not onto tonight's agenda so anything you want to talk about bes…
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[Music] the city is taking new steps to protect its Rich history focusing on preserving the iconic Country Club district and other Heritage landmarks in a move to strengthen these efforts the city council recently approved several key measures including amending the city code related to The Heritage preservation Commission in addition a new escrow policy for contractors working on homes in the country club District or other Heritage landmarks was introduced and finally the plan of treatment for the country club District was updated the ordinance provides Clarity for residents and builders on when a certificate of appropriateness is needed and when it's not needed and it also provides a tool for staff an enforcement tool to make sure that what's been approved by the Heritage preservation commission is what's built the country club District was developed in the 1920s following models in Kansas City and several East Coast cities most homes were built from 1924 to 1944 in 1983 the district was listed on the national register of historic places for its use of zoning cohesive design and well-preserved concentration of homes in Period Revival architectural Styles in the early 1980s 507 of the 555 homes or 93% were deemed to be contributing resources that retain sufficient historic Integrity in 2003 Edina designated the district as a Heritage landmark and approved a plan of treatment to Guide local preservation a survey in 2019 found that 488 homes or 88% remained contributing resources and that the district is in an excellent state of preservation the changes to the plan of treatment seek to ensure the historic nature of the country club district is preserved for decades to come
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[Music] the city council has given the go-ahead for the second phase of the Redevelopment of 7200 and 7250 France Avenue Orion Investments initially received approval for a planned unit development on the site but recently requested a modification to reduce the first floor ceiling height from 16 to 14 ft in the second phase of the project this phase will bring a six-story 150 unit apartment building with underground parking to the area what makes this a project that ultimately received approvals from the council is that we're aligned with our PUD but we did make some further tweaks to further better the project we pulled out the restaurant on the first floor which reduces the traffic impact We Shrunk the first floor height by 2 feet to be more efficient more sustainable yet we maintained everything we talked about as far as the bike path The Pedestrian path all of the parking is contained within the building and we've got an acre and a quarter buffer with the neighborhood so we preserved all of the good and tweaked it to make it a little better the site is currently vacant Orion Investments plans to begin construction yet this fall
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[Music] the Opus group a prominent developer is looking to move its headquarters and they might be setting their sights on Aina Opus is proposing to tear down the four story office building at 5100 Eden Avenue and build a new 112,000 Square ft five-story office building that would potentially include a restaurant or retail space on the first floor Opus corporate headquarters would occupy a portion of the building Opus presented a sketch last month to the Edina City Council Members gave non-binding feedback on the project we think this uh site is uniquely suited to office development and given the the recent residential development in this area we think balancing that with an office use which puts daytime users in the area who can also be uh patronizes of the local businesses uh we think it's just going to make this a much more vibrant um uh mixed use node to move forward Opus would need to request a resoning of the site variances or flexibility through a planned unit development and a site plan and subdivision or replant Opus plan replaces a previous proposal for an apartment building and retail space on the site that plan received preliminary approval approval in 2023
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty edina's newest officer is working the police beat on four legs Euro a Dutch Shepherd and Officer Nick Peterson began work last month as the din Police Department's newest K9 team Euro completed extensive training earlier this spring in agility obedience tracking criminal apprehension and Handler protection the city's k9's are certified in Patrol and narcotics detection their training meets us police K9 Association standards what you see is the connections the real camaraderie that comes with these programs these handlers and their passion for keeping other people safe so that's what I think about when I look at these folks standing behind me they represent the next generation of that excellence
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[Music] welcome to agenda Idina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty hi James hueland do mayor Jim huband and council members Carolyn Jackson and James Pierce officially began their new terms by taking the oath of office at the city council's first meeting of the year I city clerk Sharon Allison swore each of them into their offices on both the city council and Housing and Redevelopment Authority the trio was reelected in the 2024 general election their four-year terms will expire in January 2029 the city council met with its legislative delegation from the state earlier this month sharing priorities for the 2025 legislative session Edina has five priorities specific to the community the city seeks money from the state for interchange improvements at Minnesota highway 100 and Vernon Avenue West 50th Street and critical infrastructure repairs in the pump house of the Edina Aquatic Center the city is asking for a sales tax exemption for projects at Brar and Fred Richards Parks the city is also asking for a change in tax increment financing or Tiff legislation to extend the rule to start projects within 5 years of approval to 10 years for two Tiff districts in the greater Southdale District finally the city is asking for a change to state law to better protect Municipal Employees with enforcement functions the current law recognizes the need to protect certain employees whose jobs make it more likely they will be the target of assaults by escalating charges from fifth to fourth degree assaults when they occur against peace officers firefighters school officials and public employees with mandated duties the current law does not extend to employees required to enforce administrative codes rules ordinances and laws as part of their job duties such as building officials utility workers and Municipal liquor store clerks a legislative agenda that is adopted and approved uh by a city council uh is that City council's statement to the state legislature of what it wants to see accomplished in the upcoming session things that they want to see changed uh new things they'd like to see introduced it's it's a way that you can kind of put it all in writing and be clear to everybody involved what the city council wants the 2025 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature began January 14th from tackling flood risks to enhancing infrastructure r spiters work has a lasting impact on Idina recently the American public works association's Minnesota chapter named Ross Bitner the city's Engineering Services manager Public Works manager of the year with 12 years of service to the city he's been recognized for his dedication and innovative solutions Edina TV takes a closer look at how bitner's efforts continue to improve life in our community this is the first of its kind in Minnesota Weber Park is home to a large pond popular with four pod here's a whole bunch of ducks and feathered visitors the duck was t…
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folks as soon as we get a green light up here on the podium we'll start and we have a green light so let's get started well good evening everybody and welcome to the meeting of the adanta city council it is Tuesday evening April 16 2024 uh 7:03 p.m. and uh as director benat indicated we're doing these meetings at hybrid fashion we have been ever since the start of covid people can listen in from home live and they can contact us uh we provide that opportunity for Community comment and a public hearing if we have one tonight we only have Community comment as an opportunity for people to call in we also have uh residents and the audience that may wish to uh address the Council on a matter of concern to them uh in community comments so folks may be watching on cable TV or ed.gov live meetings or at facebook.com edn and they're certainly W welcome to participate in the meeting we're going to put the um the phone number up on the screen right now because the uh Community comment comes up fairly quickly so those are the numbers that you need to have in mind when you call in so if you can write them down quickly at home um those are the numbers to call in to access an operator and then the operator will bring in to director benat director benat will bring you in front of the council if you're calling in as part of community comment and just a reminder uh when we get to Community comment uh you can you can express any kind of concern you want to the council as long as it's not about something that's otherwise on the agenda this evening or scheduled for a future public hearing so having provided that information let's call the meeting to order and I'm going to ask our clerk Sharon Ellison to call the role clerk Allison council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member Risser here mayor huin here uh next folks is the Pledge of Allegiance plge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republ for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thanks everyone and um we've got a form of meeting agenda that's been published uh to the residents in our community and uh is there anyone on the council from a staff standpoint that wishes to modify the meeting agenda in a former fashion all right is there a motion to adopt the meeting agenda as published so moved second member Jackson moves member U seconds the adoption of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion all those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda is published say I I I opposed carried meeting agenda is adopted uh next we are now back at Community comment so um Folks at home you should be thinking about getting ready to call in or call in if you desire desire to talk to the council about something of concern to you but first i'm going to turn to uh any of our fellow residents in the audience that wish to address the Council on a matter of concern to them again you'll have three minutes you…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty a long-awaited replacement is coming to the pedestrian bridge over MInnesota Highway 62 the city will hire a fabricator to help finalize plans for a new accessible pedestrian bridge the current Bridge which does not meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards was built in the 1960s and is owned and managed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation the bridge is an important piece of infrastructure connecting the Northeast and Southeast parts of Edina it's also a critical connection for pedestrians and cyclists to safely access Roslin Park and its amenities including the Aquatic Center the bridge was significantly damaged in 201 22 when it was struck twice by trucks the second Collision resulted in the closure of the bridge for most of 2022 until expensive temporary repairs were made in January 2023 since that time the city and mindat have been in discussions about replacing the bridge funding for the project has been secured with a successful State bonding request and mindat funds the project team of Bolton and M and snow kic architect was hired in June and has developed some designs with unique steel truss angles and attachments a bridge fabricator will be able to provide input on the attachment details of the facade and estimate costs at this stage and eventually make the steel truss Bridge itself we're at about 30% design for this pedestrian bridge and we're at a point where a fabricator will be able to help us estimate the true cost of the project we have a $6 million budget we want to ensure that we stay within the budget and that the bridge fabricator will do estimating help us get plans from 30 to 100% designed they'll talk to us about how they're going to transport this bridge and then we're looking at a unique feature on the bridge whether the bridge has a straight 90° steel truss structure or are we going to camber that out 10° and that's really another key point of having a fabricator is they will better be able to estimate the cost to do that work how are we going to transport it again how are we going to bring it to the site and then eventually install it over a active highway on Highway 62 if the project remains on track final bridge plans would be complete in September with construction in 2026 upon completion the city will own and be responsible for maintenance of the bridge
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty City staff is working on an ordinance to control where cannabis is sold in Edina when the state's office of cannabis management or ocm begins issuing licenses in 2025 adults 21 and older have been allowed to use cannabis since since last August however cannabis cannot be sold in Minnesota until the ocm is able to issue licenses expected on or around January 1st 2025 municipalities are required to allow cannabis licenses issued by the state the city May adopt an ordinance covering some specific local regulations including the maximum number of licenses to be issued cost of registration and Zoning District cannabis businesses will be allowed to operate in state law also allows cities to establish buffers from schools dayc carees residential treatment facilities or attractions within a public park that are regularly used by miners including playgrounds and athletic fields at least once a year cities are required to conduct compliance checks of every cannabis and hemp business at a work session last month City staff presented its initial recommendations it's been an interesting thing uh we've had a group of Staff working on it a small like Committee of Staff working on it from planning to health to Administration um and other departments um so we've gotten input from lots of places um and we're trying to we're trying to make a a good decision for the current time and this is a new thing for the state so um hopefully we we we hit The Sweet Spot the city is required to allow one license per every 12,500 residents so Edina could limit the number to five or allow more the city council directed staff to draft the ordinance with a maximum of five a City May impose an initial retail fee of $500 or up to half the amount of the state's license fee whichever is less staff recommended charging the maximum amount for registration until the city fully understands the staff work associated with the process many cities choose to Zone cannabis retailers similar to tobacco and liquor stores any Dina those stores are permitted in the planned commercial districts or PCD examples of pcd1 zoned areas for smaller neighborhood businesses are Valley View and Wooddale 44th in France 70th in Cahill and Lincoln and London Dairy PCD too allows for more and slightly larger commercial businesses examples are Grand View and 50th in France PCD 3 allows the most and largest commercial businesses and is limited to the Southdale District to best scatter such businesses across the city the council directed staff to draft an ordinance including all three pcds the public will be invited to weigh in on the draft order during a public hearing later this year residents can provide testimony at that time online at betterto together.org by voicemail or by attending the meeting when the matter is considered the historic Wooddale Avenue Bridge over minihaha Cree…
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[Music] concerts paddleboats farmers markets winter festivals Centennial Lakes Park really has a little something for everyone in every season but 40 years ago the future site of the park was significantly different thanks to a recent Roundtable discussion attendees had the chance to hear how plants for the park came together from the people who were the most involved the before there was this there you go there was a big mound of gravel here back in the ' 50s and 60s and then uh Hedberg who owned the property essentially stopped uh mining it it was a open mining uh excavation uh they had a uh movie theater Outdoor Theater across the street but basically it was industrial type usage in 1986 when the owners of The 100 Acre Site decided to put it up for sale it was the last developable commercial plot in Edina and we had to amend our our zoning ordinance to make a project like this uh work plus the city had a variety of expectations like affordable housing we wanted housing we wanted commercial we wanted office space and of course we wanted a public park we wanted to create something for all the people of Ed so this property had a a massive requirement of uh storm water storage and of course the question became how can we turn that into an amenity on the site development started in the mid 1980s and we didn't finish until the year 2000 so about 11 years we had to go through a few different ups and downs in the markets here with h The Office Buildings but it all came together in about 11 years all of the thoughtful planning has resulted in an oasis in the middle of Edina the uh storm water retention Pond actually became a great amenity for the park between you know paddle boating in the summertime as well as fishing we do some great kids fishing programs here and do like the farmers market then you also have it for the uh ice skating rink in the winter time so you're going to hear from each of these men tonight about the decisions in the development of Centennial Lakes it all could have turned out so differently which is why the city of Edina in conjunction with United properties and Centennial Lakes Office Park decided to host this oral history event so you know other things before Centennial Lakes that were that were considered Believe It or Not were um office warehouses it developed of course over the years to what we see now and I think uh people really come to appreciate it let's hope the city keeps that vision and maintains this park system that's really second to none in the United States as far as I'm concerned for Edina TV I'm Tom Cornell if you were unable to attend the centenial Lakes oral history event you can view it during the month of July on Comcast channel 813 as well as on din TV's YouTube channel
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[Music] upon celebrating her 40th anniversary working with the city of Edina environmental health specialist and recycling coordinator solve Wilmont recently said that change is the constant in life since starting her career in the mid 1980s Wilmont has certainly seen her share of change Edina TV met with her recently to take a look back at the impact she's had in our community 40 years ago solve Wilmont was looking for a job I walked into the city what she found was a career it happened to be registration season and the staff there were swamped they said well if you can start today we'll put you on right now and so she began working for the Parks and Recreation Department at that point computers weren't widespread in the city yet we were using uh cards for limits on registration for swimming lessons once the cards filled up with names that class was full an even better fit in the city soon presented itself and Wilmot knew exactly what to say and I have a degree in biology and the health department was expanding by one person so I was able to use those words in the interview to say well Public Health isn't meant to harm people it's really meant to improve their well-being for the decades that followed Wilmont has been at the Forefront of many changes in public health I was part of the very early programs for the recycling um system from its expansion to a little bucket down at the curb collected weekly to the cart now that we use every other week and then the most recent expansion was Organics and the first memo I wrote was in 2012 and it took us till 2020 to actually initiate the program as well as overseeing major updates in swimming pool safety following a tragic event Abigail Taylor um the child that had a terrible accident at a pool because of a drain cover her family was involved here in Idina they lived here in Idina so I was part of the recreation water advisory committee when that new regulation came in pack I was a president of that Association that's one of the areas that I've really embraced in the public health system that we can make some significant changes that can benefit the water quality and the safety for reducing waterborne illnesses uh through those changes after being part of so much over four decades while making Idina a safer place to live and visit what has Wilmot learned the big thing about change is that it should happen um it's hard for us to embrace change sometimes because it's comfortable to be where we're at uh but man if things don't change I mean every year we age that's a change we just have to embrace right so that's where we need to look at change of something to embrace and see what we can do to make that change a good thing from E of Fire Station 1 I'm Scott Denfeld Edina TV one more area of change in wilmot's 40 years with the city included meeting her future husband while he was an electrician in the public works department the couple has two sons
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[Music] the city council met with its legislative delegation from the state earlier this month sharing priorities for the 2025 legislative session Edina has five priorities specific to the community the city seeks money from the state for interchange improvements at Minnesota highway 100 and Vernon Avenue West 50th Street and critical infrastructure repairs in the pump House of the Edina Aquatic Center the city is asking for a sales tax exemption for projects at bramar and Fred Richards Parks the city is also asking for a change in tax increment financing or Tiff legislation to extend the rule to start projects within 5 years of approval to 10 years for two Tiff districts in the greater Southdale District finally the city is asking for a change to state law to better protect protect Municipal Employees with enforcement functions the current law recognizes the need to protect certain employees whose jobs make it more likely they will be the target of assaults by escalating charges from fifth to fourth degree assaults when they occur against peace officers firefighters school officials and public employees with mandated duties the current law does not extend to employees required to enforce ad administrative codes rules ordinances and laws as part of their job duties such as building officials utility workers and Municipal liquor store clerks a legislative agenda that is adopted and approved uh by a city council uh is really that City council's statement to the state legislature of what it wants to see accomplished in the upcoming session things that they want to see changed uh new things they'd like to see introduced it's it's a way that you can kind of put it all in writing and be clear to everybody involved what the city council wants the 2025 regular session of the Minnesota Legislature began January 14th
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all right all right good morning welcome to the meeting of the Ed city of Edina Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting this is September 20 SE September 12th um to Thursday September 12th at 7:30 a.m. and with that I will call the meeting to order uh executive director could you please take our roll call commissioner Pierce president commissioner Anu pres commissioner Jackson here and with that we will stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you now we are continuing to conduct these meetings in a hybrid fashion uh and when we get to community comment that comes up very quickly uh you can dial in uh or and we'll start with people in the audience if anybody's here and so uh could we please show the Callin information so here you go there's the number and the access code and remember to press star three when you're ready to speak and that will be Community comment is the only time this morning that we will be having um intake from the community so with that then let's move on to approval of the meeting agenda can I have a motion to approve the meeting agenda so moved second all right moved by commissioner agu second by commissioner Pierce um all those in favor signify by saying I hi hi okay it passes oh and by the way if you're wondering where our normal chair is and our commissioner rer they're both unable to be here this morning so we are down to a mighty 3 um so now see I told you it come up quickly it's time for Community comment I don't see anybody in the audience and um director benat are you having any callers come online I do not have anyone on the the line at this point but because there is a slight delay in the broadcast I would recommend we wait one minute before moving on my clock shows it it's 7:33 so I will come back to you when I have a caller or at 7:34 whichever is first okay terrific thank you e 9 8 s not want to deny anyone the opportunity to participate it is now 7:34 and I don't have any callers so I think it's safe to move forward thank you the longest minute of the day um so it is our custom to respond to previous Community comment um have our executive director respond to that uh executive director Neil did we have any comments from last time we did not okay thank you so much and with that we can move on to the adoption of the consent agenda um may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda so moved a second moved by me uh commissioner Pierce and second by commissioner agnu all those in favor can uh signify by saying I I I I thank you it passes okay we have no public hearings this morning so we're straight into reports and recommendations and I will uh turn it over to our executive director Scott Neil to uh begin the discussion thank you madam chair the only item on the agenda for the HRA this morning is the approval of the proposed 2025 operating budg…
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a.m. and this is a uh meeting uh special meeting of the ad of city council to candas the vote of that took place on the general election on November 5th uh 2024 uh I'm going to call this meeting to order and I'm going to ask our clerk Sher and Allison to call the role here here here um next we have a meeting agenda to approve is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda so moved second uh member U moves the approval of the meeting agenda member Jackson seconds uh any further discussion all those in favor of approving the meeting agenda say I I I oppos carried the meeting agenda is adopted uh we have one item here as I mentioned the ing of the vote the results of the municipal election held November 5th 2024 and that's in the reports and recommendations portion of the agenda it's embodied in resolution 202 24-96 which our uh city clerk Sharon Allison will now present to us clerk Ellison mayor council members uh thanks for having me this morning uh you are here as a mayor stated to uh Canvas OR approve the results of the general election and here is is the um results um congratulations mayor hublin on being elected to another term congratulations uh council member Jackson and council member Pierce on being elected to another term before you approve the elections though I'd like to share some data with you um uh and other information about the elections um so actual turnout was 86% um which is actually within the um range of what we normally see um in a Dina in 2020 we did have a high of 90% um but generally it's between 75 and 86% is what we've seen um early voting though uh we had 59% that is extremely high um for Edina and then on Election Day 41% of Voters went to their polling place to vote in terms of the um voters who came to City Hall we had 1,54 voters um that voted at City Hall um in the first four weeks we had uh just a little bit over 3700 um that voted and that daily average was 171 now in the first four weeks that's the time period when voters are filling out their ballot and putting it into the envelope uh to be sent to the county and counted later um as you can see in the last two weeks when voters were able to put their ballot into the ballot counter that is the period when voters are more um interested in voting with 11,294 um voters coming to City Hall and that was a daily average of 753 um an extremely high number um our two highest days were November 1st where we had 1,138 voters and then on November 4th the day before election where we had 1,147 voters um in City Hall I'd like to thank the staff nearly 200 um people that made this election possible we had about 167 election judges and then the rest were um actual full-time City staff that helps out um with the election process and we definitely could not make this election work without um this Village that we needed um in order to pull off a successful election in a d so thank you all who helped out I'd like to um show you a year-by-year comparison um you may recall that in …
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e all right all right all right welcome oh we got another commissioner coming in the door commissioner Smith why don't you come and join us all right welcome everybody to the July 10th 2024 City viina Planning Commission meeting on behalf of the rest of the Planning Commission we are grateful you are here in person and for those tuning in remotely your thoughts your feedback your participation is vital as we navigate change together here in Idina specifically regarding the ways in which people want to use their land so tonight we have one public hearing I'll get into kind of of the details and the instructions for that when we get closer to it but uh just so you know what to expect I'll do a quick rundown of the agenda and then we'll open this meeting so we'll have a call to order followed by roll call we'll have an approval of tonight's meeting minute or meeting agenda and then the prior meetings minutes then we open it up to the community comment period which is a chance for anyone who is here in person to speak about a matter not on tonight's agenda and then after that we have one public hearing and it's a variance request we have no reports or recommendations which sometimes include sketch plan reviews which unlike a public hearing is a chance for us to give non-binding feedback to a more informal potential application so instead we go right to chair and member comments followed by staff comments and then adjournment uh it is important to know that we take all feedback that we hear before the meeting that comes to us through email or through our better together.org engagement website we had no comments for this particular project shared with us uh but it's it's important you know that any project that's on the table is on there for you to learn about and you to comment about so feel free to tune in to that and take a look at what's coming on the July 24th meeting there's a a a project in Southdale area so take a look at that and if you have any comments we will see those so without further Ado we'll call this meeting to order and then roll call commissioner elire here commissioner Miranda here commissioner Padia here commissioner Smith here commissioner day here commissioner felt here commissioner hanaman here chair Bennett here here oh good you guys are sharing nice you could just take your own you know help you out a little all right so uh next we have the approval of tonight's meeting agenda I'd welcome a motion if it all looks good motion to approve the agenda second all those in favor say I I so moved next we have the approval of the prior meeting's minutes June 26 if there's no proposed changes I'd welcome a motion to that too motion to approve the minutes second all those in favor say I I so moved next we have the community comment period like I mentioned this is your chance to talk about anything not on tonight's agenda for those who are here in person you have three minutes you can come to a Podium say it's your full name address and…
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[Music] the city's new diversity equity and inclusion manager began work earlier this summer Thomas Brooks will continue the work needed to follow through on the city's vision of providing a high quality of life for all its residents Edina TV shows us how Thomas is approaching his new role in any Community change is unavoidable but how a city views and reacts to that change takes intention Thomas Brooks has been on the job as the new diversity equity and inclusion manager for only a couple months but he's taken that time to learn and gather data it's a great way for me and for staff to one make sure that we understand the community um who's actually in the community and who's actually accessing City programs and services Brooks arrived at the city after working for the state of Minnesota a move he says brings him closer to both employees and residents on a day-to-day basis I look at a city like Adina and certainly something special has been built here in the city but I also look at a city like Adina and there is so much potential and opportunity particularly when we start to leverage um an inclusive and and an equity lens in the work that we're doing work that includes looking at guiding documents one of the things that Thomas and I will be working really closely on and also having the opportunity to engage the community in is as we look at our Equity strategic action plan to how can we move our community forward and follow the data in order to be able to make changes to best serve the rest of our residents Services accessible to anyone regardless of need which goes hand inand with recruiting and retaining a diverse Workforce some of those hard to fill jobs that we have within the city that maybe aren't getting as many applications as we'd like or are particularly harder to diversify because there are so uh limited applications and like what can we do to create ideas taking City operations into sharp focus with the help of a new and experienced point of view Thomas is a thoughtful Problem Solver I'm super excited for the opportunity to work alongside him to learn from him and to grow with him from Edina City Hall I'm Scott Denfeld Edina TV Brooks resum includes a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and a master's degree in industrial and organizational psychology he also serves on the Minnesota Board of Social Work where he aims to reduce barriers for social workers especially those working with diverse communities
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[Music] the city has exceeded a goal set two years ago to plant 1,000 trees as a way of improving climate health and tree Equity this next gen trees initiative received National recognition in June by the US Conference of Mayors as this future tree canopy takes root the city has made it easier to find these trees and learn more about them with an online tool Edina TV shows us how it was kind of easy to tell on the map where we needed trees not long ago Rosland Park was one of those places we were trying to do something that was going to make an impact and um so we came up with you know thousand trees I've never done that good morning all right on Arbor Day in 2022 more than 100 volunteers signed up to establish new life and improve their Community 200 50 trees were planted in a single day it was part of the nextg trees initiative an ambitious effort to plant 1,000 trees in Idina paid for with American Rescue plan act funds kind of cool to come back here now and and see how much they've all grown from just you know the little kind of 6ot tall 10g potted tree to you know what we have here this is a northern Catalpa we planted uh 3 years ago and uh back then it was about 6 ft tall just as just as tall as I am and and now you can see it's uh doubled almost tripled in size and so it's really loving its new home and is uh flourishing here in its new location now there's a way to find every NextGen tree planted with an online interactive map it's one thing to say you've planted a thousand trees but it's really cool for residents to be able to actually like drill down and see where those trees physically went GIS coordinator Anna denin helped the city's Forester determine where those trees were needed most we looked at um some sustainability layers to look at our existing tree canopy um where there are maybe some deficiencies we got some information from hanapin County about where our heat islands are in Edina so if we plant trees in those heat Islands um it'll help combat that areas like the southeast quadrant of the city where most of the 250 trees planted on private property were located this map shows their proximity to multif family and affordable housing ultimately you do have this final map product that makes that data easy to understand for residents or whoever is interested this dashboard includes the date each tree was planted and its species there are over 100 just with climate change i' I've been switching and planting a lot of climate adaptable species Minnesota's Winters have warmed so much that trees that couldn't survive in the past are now thriving great shade with these large leaves and then they kind of have this really fun uh bark down here that kind of starts to peel away as as it gets older just one of over 1,000 new trees offering shade for the next Century I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV to explore the new interactive dashboard visit Edina mn.gov and search next gen trees
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[Music] will next winter leave us buried in snow or waiting for a chance to pull those skis out of the garage it's anyone's guess the unpredictable nature of winter also plays a factor and how much road salt the city must buy fortunately there is a new way for the city to hedge its bet while saving taxpayers money Edina TV shows us how it's done the this is our uh salt storage facility it was erected about 3 years ago capable of storing up to 5,000 tons of salt this massive pile Towers over Shan Anderson it's been a very unique season Street supervisor for the past 25 years never seen anything like it a season that didn't demand much of this coarse material means there's more to store for next year you could have one season you go through uh tons and tons of salt the next season you go through barely any with the cost approaching $80 per ton having a place to stretch that purchase over multiple seasons is a good thing the price of salt goes usually up I've never seen it go down according to Anderson the savings have almost paid for the shelter it it's a it's a facility that allows us to really stretch the budgets per year with the tonnage of salt after a season of use the leftovers and storage begin to harden it absorbs ABS water and then it gets a crust a protective shell against Summer's humidity until it's needed again we have a machine that mounts on a loader and it's called an Alo bucket and it grinds it up it's got uh like Grinders in it take it and bust it up really good that helps us put it through our trucks onto the street saving money down the road by Saving salt I'm Dan Carpenter for ad TV
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dtha Marty to help meet the city's housing and sustainability goals the city council has approved a new type of housing in Idina accessory dwelling units or adus are now allowed under city code an Adu is a self-contained residential unit with its own living room kitchen and bathroom on the same parcel of land as a single family house an Adu can be located within attached to or detached from the main house adus are known by many other names including accessory Apartments backyard Cottages coach houses granny Flats guest houses and in-law suites among others adus have been identified in some of the city's guiding documents as a potential tool to further housing and sustainability goals the Planning Commission studied the issue for more than a year before recommending an ordinance that would allow them any Dina in terms of benefits adus provide tremendous list of benefits some include the ability to have multigenerational housing the ability to age in place and even semi-independent living situations so for example if you have an aging parent or if you have a child with disabilities and AD is a great option for that as for next steps we're looking forward to the implementation of the ordinance and building guidelines so that residents could take full advantage of this opportunity Edina is now one of more than 25 Twin Cities metro area communities allowing adus including Bloomington Hopkins minetonka Richfield and St Louis Park
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everybody ready to go well good evening everybody and welcome to the city council meeting for the city of v it is Tuesday May 21st 2024 uh I think you heard director benro if you were in Chambers uh that were doing these meetings in a hybrid fashion we've been doing them all during covid and postco uh so in this post-pandemic era people can still watch us from home and and participate in the meeting in a couple of different ways if there are public hearings they can participate that way and if there are um comments that people want to make they can either make them here in Chambers uh if they come into the meeting live or they can do it remote um there are ways to get a hold of us I think that the numbers will be on the screen here momentarily uh you should be aware of those uh numbers that you can call in on so if you're watching on cable TV or on the d.gov live meetings or Facebook uh this is your the way you uh access the meeting so that you can you can get in to talk to the council about a matter of concern to you so uh having provided that information let's call the meeting to order I'll ask our clerk Sherer Allison to call the role clerk Ellison council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member Risser here mayor huin here uh next is the pledge of allegiance to the flag flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we've got a form of meeting agenda that's been published with respect to this meeting of the city council is there anyone on staff or Council wishes to modify the meeting agenda in any form or fashion all right is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda is published so moved second all right member Jackson moves member U seconds the approval of the meeting agenda any further discussion all those in favor of approving the meeting agenda say I I I opposed carried um and now we are going to move on to community comment so if there's anyone in the audience who wishes to address the council in a matter of concern to them please come forward recall that if it's on the agenda this evening or scheduled for a future public hearing uh those are topics that will be off limits other than that we're interested in hearing what your concern Leed about and you'll have 3 minutes and um you'll get a yellow warning light when your 3 minute time period is about to expire and please try to wrap up right on the on the red light so we treat everybody the same good evening David Frankle 4510 Lake View Drive uh I just like to comment on the city manager's comment about the flag issue in the last city council meeting I made a comment about uh the cities of uh Rich at least the cities of Richfield and St Louis Park managed to figure out how to lower the flag at the appropriate time I'm not quite sure why Dina couldn't figure it out so uh even though it was a little bit of late notice do have a lot of 24/7 staff w…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city is starting the new year with a Slimmer budget than originally planned the adopted budget is nearly 5% less than recommended by staff city manager Scott Neil developed the 2025 budget in response to feedback from residents prioritizing significant investments in public safety while still upholding high levels of city services across all departments the original proposal included a $ 61.5 million tax levy an increase of 13.14% from 2024 of that 5.46% was specifically earmarked to fund the expansion of Public Safety services including the opening of Fire Station 2 and adding new police and fire Personnel the rest of it was to cover city-wide operating costs fund projects and the capital Improvement plan support the street special Levy and update the city zoning ordinance council members were not comfortable with a double- digigit levy increase between the December 3rd public hearing and Levy adoption later in the month the finance department worked hard behind the scenes and offered some possible reductions use cash reserves for zoning ordinance updates instead of levying for the expense use cash reserves to pay for the design of a new cold storage building for Public Works use Public Safety Aid funding from the state to pay for some police equipment and funds from the equipment replacement Levy to pay for some garage safety improvements at Centennial Lakes defer improvements to the shelter at Lewis Park delay hiring new paramedic firefighters until January 20126 reduce the general fund by 1% the council accepted all of the suggested reductions and approved a budget of just over 47.3 million with an 8.44 per Levy increase Neil and his executive leadership team will work to reduce the general fund to get to the adopted 2025 budget council members also challenged staff and each other to Begin work now to reduce the 2026 budget projections my big concern to make a dent in the 2026 because we can't come back with another double digit increase so then it's all right we got to have the tough conversation and do the work starting now now to contract our expenses and it's hard work we got to make tough decisions but we have to do that with the community um we just we have to do that work and I think that will take us almost a full year to have those conversations so that when we come into August of 2025 we have a really good idea of how um we can um adjust our expenses and service levels and what have you to have a projected Target um that is more reasonable the council also approved the 2025 to 2030 Capital Improvement plan at its last meeting of 2024
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e well good evening everybody and welcome to the May 7th 2024 meeting of the Adina city council uh we welcome all of you that are meeting with us here in person this evening and there are some online we've been doing these meetings in a hybrid fashion uh during covid and since Co to accommodate our residents and as director benro said people are watching on cable TV or on their computers at 9 am.gov live meetings or possibly on Facebook and what will come up fairly quickly is an opportunity to make Community comment about things that are of a concern to you uh also another opportunity for uh uh participation in the meeting tonight is a public hearing portion of the meeting and we'll get to those in a little while uh and the phone number I'm going to ask them to put the phone number up one more time for people to call in for Community comment especially because they may um they may want to be they want to be ready to go here because we'll get be getting to that fairly quickly so uh having provided that information let's call the meeting to order and let's ask our clerk Sharon Allison to call the role clerk Allison council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member rer here mayor huin here uh next is the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of alleg Allegiance to the five of the United States of America and to the Republic for stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thanks everybody and we have a form of meeting agenda in front of us this evening uh that's previously been published to the uh citizens of v as well and I'm wondering if anybody has any changes they want to make to the meeting agenda from a staff standpoint Council standpoint is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda as published so moved member Jackson moves member Pier second the adoption of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion all those in favor of adoption of the meeting agenda is published say I I I opposed carried um and now we are at Community Comet so uh let's get that number back up on the screen here momentarily and uh or for a moment I should say uh but I'm going to first go to folks in uh the audience that may wish to address the Council on a matter of concern to them and as director benat said uh please keep in mind you'll have 3 minutes we try to treat everybody the same here and you'll get a 30 second uh kind of warning with that yellow light and then you should be thinking about wrapping up your comments so please remember to give us your name and address and uh yes sir welcome mayor council members my name is Harry mclanahan and I live at 7200 York one of my takeaways from following City Council meetings is that none of you underestimates the importance of trust to your policymaking success I'd even go so far as to describe trust building as one of this body's core values consciously Focus focusing on removing ambiguity from your public discourse can make you even more effective…
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[Music] it only takes a few Acres of Marshland to host billions of mosquito eggs just the thought of it would have most of us reaching for the bug repellent fortunately the Metropolitan mosquito control district has a better solution it's working to prevent mosquitoes from Taking Flight in the first place tv shows us how they do it just below the surface of any neighborhood Hood pond have to get pretty close a new brood of mosquitoes are waiting for the right time to hatch all we're doing is dipping the water uh to see if there's any larvae present and sometimes the larae are really really small to defeat a flying pest the Metropolitan mosquito control district got it yep is also taking to the skies this local government agency operates within the sount metro area surveilling and treating hundreds of sites for mosqu larva at Highlands Park this drone will deliver small pellets lethal to mosquitoes but not Wildlife it is called spinoid that's the active ingredient um and basically it's a bacterium derivative uh that kind of once it's in the water it disperses and gets absorbed by the mosquito and kills them this aerial delivery method is not only faster and more efficient than spreading pelt it's by hand it's also safer some of our sites can be quite uh muddy easy get stuck in full of trees and logs and you know things that you can trip on once those uh pesky mosquitoes are flying around controlling their numbers becomes a lot more difficult there's a lot of non-target effects for spraying when you spray for adult mosquitoes that we don't want to uh mess with uh it's much more environmentally conscious if you're just applying the material to the wetlands this tax-funded work is about more than killing a nuisance insect Vector mosquitoes are mosquitoes that can transmit disease so either they they pick it up from uh like the bird population for instance with West Nile and then they transmit that to uh or potentially could transmit that to humans when they bite a human that's why any standing water like in these tires are a potential problem also we do a lot of uh kind of door-to-door lot inspections with uh things that might be holding water in people's yards like buckets tarps kids toys that kind of thing if you live in the metropolitan mosquito control district you can have those old tires hauled away for free this surveillance and treatment work will be repeated every 30 days to prevent a big problem from buzzing too close to home I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV to learn more about having your old tires picked up by the Metropolitan mosquito control district visit mmc.org there you will find an interactive map showing the last time Wetlands near your home were inspected or treated
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city has identified where cannabis can be sold in Nina once the state's office of cannabis management begins issuing licenses in 2025 since August 2023 adults 21 and older have been allowed to use cannabis in Minnesota however retail sales won't begin until state licenses are issued expected sometime in 2025 under Minnesota law municipalities must allow state issued cannabis licenses but can set local regulations including the number of retailers registration fees and Zoning districts cannabis businesses will be allowed to operate in the city is required to allow one retail registration per every 12,00 500 residents so Idina could limit the number of retailers to five or allow more the city council decided to start with five when it approved ordinance amendments at its latest meeting of November many cities choose to Zone cannabis retailers similar to tobacco and liquor stores in Idina those stores are permitted in the planned commercial District or PCD examples of pcd1 Zone areas for smaller neighborhood businesses are Valley View and Wooddale 44th in France 70th in Kill and Lincoln and London Dairy pcd2 allows for more and slightly larger commercial businesses examples are Grand View and 50th in France PCD 3 allows the most and largest commercial businesses and is limited to the Southdale District so there's actually very little that the city is allowed to control under the new state law one thing we can uh decide is uh where we want to allow cannabis businesses to locate and so um with our update to the zoning ordinance it will allow cannabis retailers to be located in all of our commercial districts um exactly the same as where tobacco and liquor are allowed to go and one thing that does is it um allows for the possibility that Canabis retailers could be kind of spread out rather than just concentrated in one area the local ordinance requires cannabis retailers to be at least 500 ft from schools dayc carees and residential treatment facilities businesses May operate from 10:00 a.m. to 1000 p.m. also according to the updated zoning ordinance cannabis cultivation manufacturing processing wholesaling testing transportation and delivery will be limited to the plant industrial districts all operations must take place in an enclosed building Co
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he welcome to the May 22nd 2024 meeting of the Adina Planning Commission the city is committed to continuing to receive and hear your input on matters we have been collecting public input through voicemail and our engagement website betterto together.org it is important you know that all comments have been submitted have been received and read prior to the start of this meeting you do not need to submit the same feedback in another way all feedback is considered equally regardless of the way in which it was submitted tonight there are two public hearings individuals who want to provide testimony remotely for the public hearings can call 312- 535 8110 and enter access code 2631 711 5389 the password is 5454 press star three on your telephone keypad when you would like to get in the queue to speak a staff member will unmute you when it is your turn please State your full name and address before speaking and everyone is allowed up to three minutes to speak remember you do not need to call in or comment live tonight if you have already provided feedback also do not repeat information already presented provide testimony if you have new comments or information to bring forward okay call to order roll call commissioner Aly here commissioner Pia here commissioner who here commissioner Schultz here commissioner day here commissioner phel here commissioner hanaman here Vice chair Miranda here okay our first item um our next item is the approval of the meeting agenda do I have a motion to approve the agenda motion to approve second all in favor say I I I he motion carries um next item is approval of meeting minutes um the meeting minutes were for the April 11th 2024 special work session and the May 8th regular meeting do we have a motion to approve the minutes motion to approve the meeting minutes a second second all in favor say I I okay approval of meeting minutes uh meeting minutes are approved okay next up is community comment we will now hear from residents in person who would like to speak about something not on tonight's agenda or scheduled for a future public hearing you may speak for up to three minutes after giving your full name and address the green light of your Podium will turn on when you have 30 seconds remaining the yellow light will turn on and when you're out of time the red light will turn on anyone here in person for a come forward uh my name is David Frankle 4510 like you drive Edina uh couple comments about planning and zoning I I moved here from Reston Virginia which is generally considered to be the first plan community in the United States it is roughly the same demographics as a da and to be honest when I moved here about 14 years ago a shock to how Dina virtually does no zoning or planning it's it was amazing to me compared to Reston which I said is planned along with Columbia Maryland which was a sister Community about the same time the other issue I like to bring up is the city of Edina as you're probably well aware of belongs …
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty minihaha is a popular name in the Twin City's metro area many are familiar with the minihaha parkway minihaha Regional Park minihaha Falls and the minihaha neighborhood in Minneapolis it translates to Waterfall or rapid water in Dakota outside of the metro area you will find several instances of mini Wawa including the city of mini waa and Lake mini waa in akchen County but did you know there was once a mini waa Avenue Ina prior to the expansion of Minnesota highway 100 in the early 1970s mini waa Avenue was located east of the highway in between Eden Avenue and West 50th Street our Ral records indicate that the Minnesota Department of Highways now called mindat assembled and acquired the land needed for the highway expansion through eminent domain minua Avenue was removed during the construction of the Northbound on and off ramp sometime between 1971 and 1974 City staff mindat staff and land surveyors have found references to the vacation or Public's right to use the road but unable ble to find a recorded copy of the formal documentation to resolve the matter and allow for a clean legal description of the land prepared the city council earlier this month adopted a resolution vacating the right of-way easement that runs through Tupa Park but we never found a legal recorded document so it was recommended to go back in front of council reaffirm the the vacation we knew existed that we just didn't have documentation for and a final note mini Wawa is sue for lapping water or a jibway for make a good sound close to 4,000 students Walk The Halls of Valley View Middle and Idina High School on any day of the week you'll find the city's two school resource officers there as well their work of helping to keep schools safe also includes time for fun Edina TV shows us how socializing and safety go hand inand 8:00 a.m. can feel early for these Valley View Middle School students all right but they're awake preparing for an important day of testing MC that means no visory no flex you're going straight to your testing site this before school program is called hornet Central 1 2 3 go and it's not only for studying that was a nice kick and on this day got it it's not only for students kids get a chance to have some fun burn some energy before going to class for the whole day joining them is school resource officer Kyle Water Street how often do you get to throw dodgeballs at a cop this is Officer Water Street second year in a position where Safety and Security are top priorities but so is spending time like this with students I look at it as a way to try to build relationships with students and if you can build those positive relationships and get them strong nice and early the chance of having to deal with a student at least in my mind on a negative aspect is less the city has two school resource officers also called sro's Joseph …
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[Music] did you know that 96% of all businesses in the city are classified as small businesses these local employers are not only important to the economy they also contribute to the well-being and vibrancy of the community the 50th in France Business and Professional Association is working to promote 150 of these businesses in ways that are fun for the whole family he DED TV shows us how and introduces us to its new director now therefore the city council of the city of Adan is hereby Proclaim April 28th through May 4th 2024 as Small Business Week a proclamation hi I post carried celebrating a Local Economic Force small businesses they really are the lifeblood of our community accepted in part by the 50th in France Business and Professional association's new director there was a lot to do as soon as I got on um my feed and and started the position there perfect okay like making a visit to 50th in France more than a shopping trip but an event even the little ones will hop to like an Easter egg hunt held for the first time in March what families will do is they'll start discovering all that's at 50th in France so they're going to get to hop into different businesses the businesses will all have a treat for them a reason to break with routine and internet shopping to explore this business district the children that have the most checks on their postcard win a golden egg full of tickets to the din theater one of several events planned for the year designed to remind visitors that shopping locally keeps dollars in the community when you go in and you start supporting a small business you're supporting a family you're supporting a local person who is doing this for the love of being an entrepreneur and providing a service to you a collective effort by small businesses at Fifth and France to promote the economic well-being of the area and I think it's really important that people remember how great it feels to be in community with each other well making the shopping experience one to remember at 50th in France I'm Dan Carpenter for ad TV one of the 50th in France Business and Professional association's biggest event of the year is just around the corner if you enjoy great food music and art then you'll want to visit the Art Fair Friday May 31st through Sunday June 2nd at 50th in France there will be free parking and a free shuttle to the event from Idina City Hall on Saturday and Sunday
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[Music] design of the new Fred Richards Park is underway the Confluence company began work in June to transform the former Fred Richards Executive Golf Course on parklon Avenue into a 43 acre multi-use Park the park will consist of three key areas the central green nature bank and Great Lawn there is also a panhandle in the northern part of the Park known as the loop so this process has been going since um engaged in 2016 and you know the closing of the Fred was big for the community um so it's taken us a long time to get to this point but it's really exciting moving forward again taking all that visioning and um the original Concepts and really making them a reality now that we have the funding and the support to do so some changes have been made to the original plan instead of renovating the clubhouse to include new restrooms and food service Confluence recommends a new centrally located Park pavilion be constructed the primary entry Drive parking courts and playground have been reoriented to minimize impacts on Wetlands council members gave their feedback on the initial design at a meeting last month work will continue to refine the concepts after designs are completed construction documents will be created for bidding the Parks and Recreation Department hopes to break ground for the project made possible by a local option sales tax next year
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e and um you heard Mr denfield talk about the fact that we're handling these meetings on a hybrid basis uh there will be an opportunity for people to uh call in tonight for uh concerns of residents and otherwise there was no public hearing matter this evening that they can call in for so uh if there's some information that can be put on the screen for people at home uh those are the numbers that you want to be mindful of and be writing down right away because Community comment comes up fairly quickly you may be tuning in on uh uh uh you know on your computer in some form or fashion and uh so make sure that you uh can communicate with us and then you'll get in a call with an operator and the operator will bring you to Mr denfield and Mr denfield will bring you into the C meeting so get ready for that here in relatively short order um and then of course we'll call on our residents that are here with us in the audience this evening that have concerns that they wish to express to the council that are not on the agenda this evening or otherwise scheduled for a future public hearing those are the only two areas that we say that you cannot cover in your in your community comments and your public comments so uh let's now call the meeting to order and I'll ask uh Carrie sinning our uh Deputy Clerk to call the role council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member rer here mayor huband here next is the Pledge of Allegiance Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all we have a form of meeting agenda that's been published uh for uh members of the council and staff and our general public is there anyone who wishes to modify the agenda in any former Fashion on the council from a staff standpoint all right is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda as published so moved second member Jackson moves member Pierce second the approval of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion all those in favor of approving the meeting agenda is publish say I I I opposed carried the meeting agenda is approved uh and now we are back at Community comment so I'm going to get those um numbers up on the screen uh but in the meantime we're going to see if our there are folks with us uh in Chambers this evening that wish to address the Council on matters of concern to them uh and U we've got one of our residents has already uh stepped up to address the council document camera yeah good evening mayor and councel good evening my name is Ralph ziker I live at 4311 Cornelia Circle I'm here tonight to talk about the ongoing lack of transparency with res with residents during two prior HRA meetings over some four hours of presentations an estimate of the property tax revenues needed to pay the interest cost on the proposed $23 million of Tiff notes for the Macy's site was never shared therefore at the August …
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty mayor Jim huband and in cumbent Council Members Carolyn Jackson and James Pierce have been reelected to the dinast city council in this year's general election hin was challenged by former council member Ron Anderson according to un official election results huband won with nearly 55% of the vote receiving 16,8 187 votes to Anderson's 13,860 it's been my great pleasure to be the mayor of Adina now I'm in year 20 and has gone by so fast I just can't believe it uh but there were things that I still wanted to see completed we've got all these things all these projects going on in the Parks uh we've got about $72 Million worth of spending Authority from our tax spers to improve those Park systems uh we're in conversations with the county about a potential new art center at the new library the county is going to build at 70th in York uh we've got a new fire station coming online and there's just so many interesting things going on right now planning commissioner Ryan day also ran for a seat challenging incumbents Jackson and Pierce Jackson was the top vote getter with 16,552 votes while Pierce kept his seat on the city council with 13,784 votes today's 12594 voter turnout was 86% in Idina approximately 59% of that turn out voted early at City Hall or by mail and 41% voted in person on Election Day the reason why um folks are have decided to vote early it's really a speculation on my part um some of the things that I would think of is that every time I turned on the news the people were talking about voting early so it was a top of mind for everyone um it probably is a convenience thing rather than waiting for election day where um something may come up where that that one day they just can't make it to the polls um they decided to come out and vote at a convenient date um that works um for them um I believe the political parties were also pushing um early voting so those are probably some of the things that resulted in such a high turnout for early voting hubin Jackson and Pierce will take the oath of office for their four-year terms at the first city council meeting of the New Year the city council has given the go-ahead for the second phase of the Redevelopment of 7200 7250 France Avenue Orion Investments initially received approval for a planned unit development on the site but recently requested a modification to reduce the first floor ceiling height from 16 to 14 ft in the second phase of the project this phase will bring a six-story 150 unit apartment building with underground parking to the area what makes this a project that ultimately received approvals from the council is that we're aligned with their PUD but we did make some further tweaks to further better the project we pulled out the restaurant on the first floor which reduces the traffic impact We Shrunk the first floor height by 2 feet to be more effici…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city has identified where cannabis can be sold in Nina once the state's office of cannabis management begins issuing licenses in 2025 since August 2023 adults 21 and older have been allowed to use cannabis in Minnesota however retail sales won't begin until state licenses are issued expected sometime in 2025 under Minnesota law municipalities must allow state issued cannabis licenses but can set local regulations including the number of retailers registration fees and Zoning districts cannabis businesses will be allowed to operate in the city is required to allow one retail registration per every 12,00 500 residents so Idina could limit the number of retailers to five or allow more the city council decided to start with five when it approved ordinance amendments at its latest meeting of November many cities choose to Zone cannabis retailers similar to tobacco and liquor stores in Idina those stores are permitted in the planned commercial District or PCD examples of pcd1 Zone areas for smaller neighborhood businesses are Valley View and Wooddale 44th in France 70th in Kill and Lincoln and London Dairy pcd2 allows for more and slightly larger commercial businesses examples are Grand View and 50th in France PCD 3 allows the most and largest commercial businesses and is limited to the Southdale District so there's actually very little that the city is allowed to control under the new state law one thing we can uh decide is uh where we want to allow cannabis businesses to locate and so um with our update to the zoning ordinance it will allow cannabis retailers to be located in all of our commercial districts um exactly the same as where tobacco and liquor are allowed to go and one thing that does is it um allows for the possibility that Canabis retailers could be kind of spread out rather than just concentrated in one area the local ordinance requires cannabis retailers to be at least 500 ft from schools dayc carees and residential treatment facilities businesses May operate from 10:00 a.m. to 1000 p.m. also according to the updated zoning ordinance cannabis cultivation manufacturing processing wholesaling testing transportation and delivery will be limited to the pl industrial districts all operations must take place in an enclosed building the city has created a new tax increment financing or Tiff District to support public improvements tied to the Redevelopment of the 9 acre Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery site on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities secured approvals earlier this fall for the project which will include four new buildings the existing Macy's store will relocate and the existing building will be raised one of the new buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven-story …
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it is still Tuesday December 3rd 2024 barely 11:59 p.m. and we are calling to order the housing Redevelopment Authority meeting that was scheduled for this uh evening and uh I'm going to ask our clerk to call the role commissioner agnu here commissioner Jackson here commissioner Pierce here commissioner rer here chair huin here uh I think we could forego the Pledge of Allegiance yes and um I think we can go right to approval of the meeting agenda is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda so moved second motion to second to approve the meeting agenda for the h any further discussion all in favor of adopting the meeting agenda for the h this December 3rd 2024 say i i i opposed carried uh anybody out in the audience for Community comment or online no no Community comment um okay and uh let let's um we've got several matters here that deal with the the budget setting the budget for 2025 and uh I'll will entertain a motion to defer all of the decision Visions on these matters under the reports and recommendations portion of the agenda to the December 177 2024 meeting of the housing Redevelopment Authority is there a motion to that effect so moved second uh commissioner Jackson moves commissioner Pierce seconds the uh postponement of the matters scheduled on the December 3rd 2024 agenda for Action under the reports and recommendations portion of the agenda to the h meeting to be scheduled on December 17 2024 any further discussion all those in favor of adoption of the motion to stus say I I I opposed carried uh any comments from anybody all right is there a motion to adjourn the h meeting so moved second commissioner Jackson moves commissioner Pi seconds the uh the what are we doing adjourning the h meeting uh on December 3rd any further discussion all those in favor of AD jerman say I I Clos carried we stand a jour
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well good evening everybody uh we have reconvened the din city council as the din Housing and Redevelopment Authority it is still Tuesday December 17 2024 and uh we have a little bit of work to do relative to the budget setting for the HRA and establishing the tax levy payable in 2025 that is HRA related so having called the meeting of the HRA to order uh I want to ask our clerk Sharon Allison to call the role commissioner agnu here commissioner Jackson here commissioner Pierce here commissioner rer here chair huin here uh so uh we have a meeting agenda in front of us is there someone who wishes to move the adoption of the meeting agenda so moved second commissioner eggon moves commissioner Jackson second the adoption of the meeting agenda uh for the h this December 17 2024 any further discussion all those in favor of adopting the me meeting agenda is published for the HRA say I I I opposed carried uh one matter in front of us this evening for Action uh as an HRA and that is adoption of resolution 20248 which adopts the HRA budget and establishes the tax levy payable in 2025 executive director Neil did you have anything you wanted to add and as a prefacing sort of comment yeah thank you Mr chair members of the commission uh yes we are asking the commission to approve the proposed budget and tax levy for the HRA for 2025 the proposed uh tax levy is two uh $259,300 that represents a 3% increase over the 2024 Levy uh the city uses these dollars to fund uh housing and and general uh Economic Development kind of activities um and we ask for your support thank you questions for the executive director all right is there a motion to adopt resolution 20248 which would adopt the HRA budget and establish the tax levy for the HRA payable in 2025 moved second commissioner U moves commissioner Jackson seconds the adoption of the resolution 20248 which adopts the HRA budget and establishes the tax levy payable in 2025 for the HRA any further discussion all those in favor of adoption of the motion stated say I I I opposed carried resolution 20248 is adopted the H budget is adopted and the tax levy is payable in 2025 is adopted uh is there a motion to adjourn the HRA meeting no mote second got a motion by commissioner AG second by commissioner Jackson adjourn the HRA meeting uh this Tuesday evening December 17 2024 any further discussion all those in favor of adjournment say I I I opposed carried H stands adjourned thank you for
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty two members of the Adina Police Department were recently recognized for their outstanding service by the Edina Community Foundation we try to get it where more people realize how important paramedics firefighters your police officers but your dispatch people all the ones that are working behind the scenes to get these officers police and firefighters to you and they they have a right to be acknowledged for the job that they do when they put their lives on the line for you and me in this community the 2023 Public Safety employee of the year award was given to record specialist Kimberly tubs tubs has been with the department since 20120 she was given the award for her help in implementing and training staff on a new Software System for the 911 dispatch Center and the records division tubs also took on a lot of extra duties when there was a staffing transition in the records division and when her assistance was needed after two homicides in 20203 Kim's dedication to the advancements of the department her positive disposition and her willingness to help with any challenge presented demonstrates why she's deserving of the public safety employee of the year award for 2023 the 2023 Mike satari officer of the year award was presented to Sergeant Darren cesak cesak has been with the department since 2003 he was given the award for his off-duty actions during a 2023 shooting in Idina in which he used quick thinking and concise communication to help direct incoming resources to the threat in 2023 cesic also transitioned to overseeing the investigations division he performed 40 background checks for various positions within the agency which were crucial for Staffing the police department effectively when you work with such talented individuals and to be singled as the officer of the year I guess it's it's very humbling the awards were presented at a public safety awards banquet for the police and fire departments in March and then again in front of the din city council earlier this month voting is underway in a special election for hennipen County Commissioner for district 6 the special election will fill a vacancy on the henpen County Board of Commissioners following a resignation of the district six seat last fall all six of the candidates are from Idina the large field means there will be a special primary election on April 30th to narrow it down to two candidates in the nonpartisan election candidates on the ballots are State Rep Heather Edelson political consultant Patrick Gage Normandale Community College director of procurement Janet koui nonprofit leader Daniel morett businesswoman Marissa Simonetti and Hopkins Schoolboard member Jan West Morland the special election for the seat will be May 14th with early voting May 6 through 13th so the special elections this time around it's the same as any other elections except …
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[0:00] uh this is a a session that we've done annually with the council um almost every year since I've been here and
[0:06] probably long before that um in previous years it has been a much smaller group
[0:12] um in last couple of years uh We've expanded the the group of people that participates in this to include uh our
[0:18] directors and even U some other folks that have individual kind subject matter expertise so before we get started I'm
[0:25] going to turn it over to Sarah in just a second she's going to outline the day uh but I'd like to start the day was saying
[0:30] thank you this is a whole this is a whole day of your time on a Saturday a beautiful
[0:36] Saturday um but I want to thank you for spending your time with us both every all electeds and and uh staff that are
[0:43] here too there's been a lot of prep that's gone into this session uh we hope it's helpful and informational to the
[0:48] council and with that awesome awesome awesome let me start by by saying thank you a de a deep
[0:56] in heartfelt thank you for inviting me back again um I take that kind of seriously uh okay so what are we doing
[1:03] today actually let's do housekeeping first housekeeping um most of you have been in
[1:10] almost all of you have been in meetings with me before so this should sound familiar but in the category of meetings
[1:15] with Sarah what I care about today is how all
[1:21] of this is participating how you're listening how you're engaging how you're thinking about things um and so that's
[1:28] that needs to be my focus and I need your help with making sure that happens and that means a number of things that
[1:35] means we've got drinks in the back um and coffee across the hall keep yourself hydrated we've got snacks in the back
[1:42] we'll have lunch on midday keep yourself fed and sugared it's amazing um especially in the afternoon what a
[1:48] little bit of hydration and a little bit of sugar can do for for mental function and and Clarity and those sorts of
[1:54] things it really is extraordinary um sitting all day is good
[2:00] for any of us some of us do entirely too much of it um it can get us sort of focused and tunnel visioned if you need
[2:06] to stand up stretch there's not a lot of room to Pace um but if you need to lean against the wall cuz your back hurts or
[2:13] you want to sit on the floor whatever it takes to keep your your head this part
[2:18] engaged um you take care of the rest to make sure you can okay we've got Brakes
[2:23] filt in along the way but they won't necessarily align with your needs you got doors there restrooms back out
[2:30] toward the front and around um these little
[2:37] monsters I I I think they they drop they certainly drop our attention dramatically and they may even drop our
[2:43] IQ depending on the research um just by being in the room so if we can get them
[2:49] face down get them to stun get them get the ring tones off all that sort of stuff um as much as we can I know tha…
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[Music] January 10th was one for the history books at Brar Arena on that day the Hornets sold out the 2000 seat West rink for the first time in the girls hockey team history Edina alumni Laura Horton and Lindsay sorum organized the event with help from peers in minanga to celebrate the progress in girls hockey this month marks 30 years since the Edina and minetonka girls hockey teams joined the Minnesota State High School league the idea really came about last spring when myself and another Min tanka mom kind of got together and said would it be incredible for these two uh programs to sell at a regular season game and it kind of started as a sellout idea and it is absolutely transformed into something much bigger than that more importantly organizers viewed the game as a springboard to Spotlight the importance of mental health through Sophie Squad Sophie Squad is a Minnesota nonprofit dedicated to holding Brave conversations and providing resources to student athletes contending with mental health challenges and stigma they typically do this at games and other events in collaboration with local teams like Edina we've been selling cookies all sorts of apparel sweatshirts things like that so we just thought it would be good for the girls to spread the message message about mental health awareness also more people learn about suhie Squad and realize what an awesome organization they are and choose to do games in honor of Sophie admission to the game was free thanks to tradition mortgage
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[Music] with the spring we've had It's Not Unusual to be thinking about snow on our roads and warm days for activities like swimming by your season pass to the Edina Aquatic Center before the end of the month to get early bird pricing the Aquatic Center in Rosland Park features a 50 m lamp pool with diving well diving boards the Lost wave surf simulator pirate plunge body slide and Tube slide shipwreck Express zipline and little Lagoon water playground for children eight and younger the facility also includes a dry playground Oakwood forest for out ofthe waterer fun the Aquatic Center will open for the season June 6th if you plan to visit the Aquatic Center at least seven times a season pass is the best value early bird pricing ends April 30th by online at Edina aquatic center.com
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[Music] the city is set to Mark its 136th anniversary on December 18th since its incorporation in 1888 land anina has undergone a transformational change Edina TV explores the transition from crops to Condominiums and sits down with one resident who witnessed much of the development firsthand the stu stuff stuff when you've been around for 92 years it goes back so far the memories kind of Stack Up school days that's where mother graduated from Frank curell an army veteran can tell you a lot of stories about those early days and how his ancestors one of the founding families of Edina moved to the area after the Civil War all way from Missouri took 6 weeks and 35W was very slow at those days back then the town was called Richfield Township settled on 9M Creek on Valley View Road back when this was all farmland and uh that was the beginning seven curell generations later Edina is a busy place and all of those Farms well they've disappeared at arnison Acres Park we learn why our mission really is to collect and preserve as well as tell the history of Edina a story you can experience here we are in the addition at the Edina Historical Society over here we have all the artifacts of from 's varying eras from its Pioneer era all the way into its modern era beginning in the 1860s the most influential families all had very expansive Farms they grew big fields of wheat but it was more Tomatoes the Cabbage lettuce the next big change came nearly a century later during the post World War II economic boom different uh Farms that were in the area started selling off the land to Suburban developers the city kind of a just exploded in 1956 the world's first indoor mall literally changed the landscape by the time the mall was built you were seeing less and less open space I think it's important for people to understand our past because it helps us to understand where we came from and also the unique challenges that we face today as well as what our identity is as a community one witness to 's past has a prediction for what's to come I would assume that 50 years from now there'll be really a lot of medical right here cuz they get it from all directions and chances are a curell will be there to witness that too I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV the Adina Historical Society is open Monday through Friday and much of its historical photo collection can be found online to learn more about its hours events and current exhibits visit Edina hisorical society.org
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e okay good folks we've got a green light that means we can start the meeting and we will start the meeting now well good evening everybody and welcome to the ad city council meeting it is Tuesday June 18th 2024 703 3 p.m. and um I think director benro just went through uh the manner in which we're conducting our meetings uh these days actually uh during covid and postco we've been doing meetings in a hybrid sort of fashion that means people can be here with us at City Hall or they can they can uh participate remotely and they can participate in community comment and the public hearing portion of the agenda and there's a couple different ways that they can do that they can might be watching on cable TV or.gov live meetings are on Facebook and if so they're going to want to make sure that they call in on the following number they're going to put that number up on the screen uh and that's a protocol for getting to the city council if you're uh tuning in virtually uh and want to speak to the council either during uh during Community comment or during the three public hearings that we have this evening uh you can call that number and I would just caution you that public comment will come up fairly quickly in the agenda uh and so uh be prepared uh and have those numbers well in hand and uh maybe be calling now as a matter of fact so having provided information I'm going to call the meeting to order and I'm going to ask our clerk Sharon Ellison to call the role clerk Ellison council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member Risser here mayor hublin here next is the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thanks everyone and um we have a form of meeting agenda that's been published both to members of the council and to the public in general anyone on staff or uh on the council that wishes to modify the meeting agenda any form all right uh is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda is public so moved second uh member Jackson moves member Pier second the adoption of the meeting agenda for the city council meeting this 18th day of June 2024 is published any further discussion all those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda say I I opposed carried uh now we are at Community comment so um I have that number put back up on the screen uh but in the meantime we're going to go to folks in the audience first that may want to address the Council on a matter of concern to them and remember it uh it can't pertain to something else on the agenda this evening or do a future uh matter that's been set for a future public hearing uh but other than that we are certainly welcome to hear your uh comments or your concerns uh we have uh residents that appear uh it seems like every meeting with something that they wish to share with the council and as our practice our city manager will deal with s…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host darthia Marty the municipal election is heating up the offices of Edina mayor and two city council members will be on the ballot of the general election November 5th mayor Jim hland is being challenged by former city council member Ron Anderson three candidates are vying for the two open seats on the city council incumbents Carolyn Jackson and James Pierce and planning commissioner Ryan day early voting for the general election begins September 20th residents may vote early at e din city hall or the henpen County Government Center or by mail all absentee voters are required to have a witness the mayor and each elected council member will serve a 4-year term beginning on the first Monday in January following the general election January 6th design of the new Fred Richards Park is underway the Confluence company began work in June to transform the former Fred Richards Executive Golf Course on parklon Avenue into a 43 acre multi-use Park the park will consist of three key areas the central green nature bank and Great Lawn there is also a panhandle in the northern part of the park known as the loop so this process has been going since um engaged in 2016 and you know the closing in the Fred was big for the community um so it's taken us a long time to get to this point but it's really exciting moving forward again taking all that visioning and um their original Concepts and really making them a reality now that we have the funding and the support to do so some changes have been made to the original plan instead of renovating the clubhouse to include new resturant rooms and Food Service Confluence recommends a new centrally located Park pavilion be constructed the primary entry Drive parking courts and playground have been reoriented to minimize impacts on Wetlands council members gave their feedback on the initial design at a meeting last month work will continue to refine the concepts after designs are completed construction documents will be created for bidding the Parks and Recreation Department hopes to break ground for the project made possible by a local option sales tax next year the Dina Fallen to the Arts Festival is returning for its 20th year September 7th and 8th at Centennial Lakes Park approximately 240 artists food vendors and sponsors are participating in the festival art categories include two-dimensional sculpture wearable wood Pottery mix media photography fine crafts glass and jewelry it's just an amazing family centered event it's dog friendly so you can bring your kids bring your dog um check out our kids zone from 10: to 2 in the amphitheater both days there'll be lots of great activities put on by Park and wreck and then you know just the vast array of artists is amazing and really supporting their livelihoods and their work we're very passionate about that and there will be something for everyone proceeds from…
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I'm Julie Risser I serve on Edina City Council and for the past year I have been fighting cancer this is breast cancer awareness month and I think it's really important to talk about I was diagnosed with her two positive breast cancer and I was so lucky because they caught it early honestly it was a statement by my husband we've maxed out our deductible go get your tasks that you haven't done and so I thought okay I'm going to go get that 3D mam and this will be the way that I'll do it before having the first treatment planned a trip to New Mexico and so that was a really positive thing boosting you know what my body could do I think helped tea me up for some of the challenges that I would experience physically I had to have six treatments I had the hair loss I had low levels of oxygen it was hard to walk next week I have my final infusion so I'm really happy about that I was fortunate to have a curable form of cancer and also to have a amazing support system here at the frow Ando Center and also within the community but there's no detection of it they consider me cured and so that is really a great win my parents are in town and they were absolutely amazing supports my daughters my husband and then the Adina Community I've been particularly touched seeing the Adina police who are wearing the pink badge for breast cancer support and it just it makes me feel like I'm part of a wider Network I so appreciate all the support again early detection is so important get that annual mammogram but it's not just thinking about a lump it can also be a dimple or a crease so signs that you don't necessarily think of can be an indicator and so that is really important to be mindful of that [Music]
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[Music] a local business that's been brewing positive Community impacts and Goodwill over the past six years recently received special recognition the din Chamber of Commerce chose wooden Hill Brewing as the 2024 business of the Year Edina TV shows us how the brewery tapped this achievement the name wooden Hill came from saying our grandfather had which was up the stairs to you know up the stairs to bed right up the wooden Hill it would take more than a few steps for two brothers to scale up a passion discovered later in life my dad and my brother got me a home brewing kit at the same time I was going to school for nanoscience and technology so I really Dove deep into the science behind things sharing the beer with people and that was the really exciting thing was being able to share the beer and see uh that excitement so we thought how can we do that at a bigger scale in 2017 they sold their first pint in the kill District off of Bush Lake Road but success wasn't as simple as filling glasses we've been able to thrive because of our community and really since the beginning we we had a commitment to giving back support for local charities through donations and events every month we do a give back event where we'll take you know a chunk of a a busy Tuesday night or whatever it is and give a portion back to a certain cause the Edina Chamber of Commerce and its members took notice wooden Hill was our business of the year in 2020 24 and I'm really proud to have them in our community because not only are they just a business that represents the spirit of Entrepreneurship it helps make ad Dina a destination a destination that has expanded over the years including a kitchen six times its original size and more event space we had to turn down some events that we just couldn't do uh noways uh we could do just about anything that's one of the reasons why I believe they were nominated for this special award is just the fact that not only have they persevered but they've expanded wooden Hill Brewing climbing to success with no plans to slow down it was an amazing honor to be named business of the Year by the Adina chamber it really makes you reflect on oh wow like these things that we were doing cuz we felt like we should do them actually do make a difference to people and it does add up to something and it's even more fuel to keep going I'm Dan Carpenter for ad TV the din Chamber of Commerce 's mission is to help local businesses survive and thrive the annual business of the Year award is just one example of how it works to shine a spotlight on businesses from sole Proprietors to large corporations
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty a development team has secured approvals for a Redevelopment of the 9 Acre Site of the current Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities have secured approvals to subdivide the property in into three separate Lots with plans for four new buildings the existing Macy's store will be relocated and the existing building will be raised earlier this month the city council resed the property as a planned unit development and approved the final plot and site plan for the project one of the buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven story mixed use building with Apartments the other two will be seven story apartment buildings one of those will also have space for a restaurant each building will include internal parking for residents employees and customers the street level parking stalls would be available to the general public the site plan is arranged with new roadways new sidewalks and new Landscaping areas that are available to the general public the existing 9 Creek bicycle trail will remain on the southern edge of the property good evening mayor members of the city council if I may I'll jump into this good to be with you again we were told we want the look and feel of the prominade to flow all the way up through the site so it feels like the prominade is actually being expanded into the property and we can see the swooping designs of the Landscaping Islands the large Landscaping Islands now they're bmed but the level of planting and the intensity and complexity of planting here mimics the schedule for the prominade so for the casual user walking in and out of the site the intent is for it to feel like an expansion of the prominade versus private property the development team is working to obtain financing for the project
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[Music] to allow members more flexibility and increase engagement with the community the city's human rights and relations commission will operate as an ad hoc task force beginning next month the city council recently approved this change at the group's request removing the commission from the city code this means it can now work as a task force allowing members to dive deeper into projects and respond more quickly to community needs as a task force the group has three big priorities supporting City staff as they develop an equity strategic action plan advising on any significant human rights or inclusion issues in the community and 2025 and creating more opportunities to connect and engage with the community diversity equity and inclusion manager Thomas Brooks will continue to serve as staff leison to the group this task force shift uh with the commission members leading the way is a very exciting move because it's allowing us to be as needed hand very Hands-On and supporting the development of the esap and we do need to see that work get done in the first half of 2025 as a task force it would have been um we were quite capable we are quite capable as a commission to do that but in this case we will be meeting more frequently we'll we'll be engaging in surveys we'll be supporting a lot of Staff efforts toward developing the esap and it's kind of exciting this change goes into effect January 1st
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty minihaha is a popular name in the Twin City's metro area many are familiar with the minihaha parkway minihaha Regional Park minihaha Falls and the minihaha neighborhood in Minneapolis it translates to Waterfall or rapid water in Dakota outside of the metro area you will find several instances of mini waha including the city of mini waa and Lake mini waa in akchen County but did you know there was once a mini waa Avenue in EA prior to the expansion of Minnesota highway 100 in the early 1970s mini waa Avenue was located east of the highway in between Eden Avenue and West 50th Street our Ral records indicate that the Minnesota Department of Highways now called mindat assembled and acquired the land needed for the highway expansion through eminent domain minua Avenue was removed during the construction of the Northbound on and off ramp sometime between 1971 and 1974 City staff mindat staff and land surveyors have found references to the vacation or Public's right to use the road but unable ble to find a recorded copy of the formal documentation to resolve the matter and allow for a clean legal description of the land prepared the city council earlier this month adopted a resolution vacating the right of-way easement that runs through Tupa Park but we never found a legal recorded document so it was recommended to go back in front of council reaffirm the the vacation we knew existed that we just didn't have documentation for and a final note mini Wawa is sue for lapping water or a jibway for make a good sound
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here we go just waiting for that green light folks well good morning everybody um following on director benot um I say welcome to the Housing and Redevelopment Authority meeting for May 16th 2024 it is 7:31 and um there is uh sometimes an opportunity to participate twice in uh an HRA meeting or a city council meeting uh when we have a public hearing there's no public hearing matter this morning in the HRA so there'll be a chance for Community comment uh with respect to anything that's on your mind that doesn't uh that isn't already on the agenda this morning or scheduled for a future public hearing before the HRA otherwise we're welcome welcoming you to give us your thoughts and your concerns and uh you'll have three minutes to do that and you'll get a yellow warning late when you got about 30 seconds to wrap up your comments so just a reminder it can't be on the agenda this morning or scheduled for a future public hearing to be able to make those public comments uh also people are listening online uh and we've been doing this all the way through covid and postco there's your Callin uh information in front of you on the screen and uh is this will come up fast right after the approval of the meeting agenda for Community comment so you should be jotting down those numbers at this point in time we'll get them back on the screen when we get to that portion of the meeting as well um having provided that information we'll call the meeting to order and I'll ask our uh administrative support specialist Lo Olsson to call the rooll commissioner Risser here commissioner Jackson here commissioner Pierce here commissioner U here hland here next is the Pledge of Allegiance Al the United States of America and for which it stands one nation under God indivisible and next we have the uh meeting agenda uh to approve is there anyone on the H wishes to modify the meeting agenda any form or fashion is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda is published so moved second commissioner Jackson moves commissioner Pier second approval of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion all those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda is published say I I I oppos carried uh now we are at Community comment and um is there any anyone in the audience that wishes to come forward and address the h and a matter of concern to them that's not on the agenda this morning or scheduled for a future future public hearing anybody on line I do not have anyone on the line at this time but because there is a short delay in the broadcast I would recommend we wait one minute uh before moving on my clock shows it at 733 so I will come back to you at 7:34 or when when we have a caller whichever is first thank you e e it is now 7:34 and I still don't have a caller so I think it's safe for you to move forward with the agenda all right thank you uh our practice is uh when we've had a h meeting or a city council meeting that um uh we answer those concerns of residents in a relatively sh…
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[Music] anyone who has driven walked biked or traveled in any way through Edina over the past 12 years has experienced the work that engineering director Chad Milner has supervised the impact that civil engineering can have on a city and a region is significant and as demonstrated at a recent Awards presentation the city of Edina has one of the best in the business business overseeing its engineering department Edina TV has the story we're going to be putting in a new lift station here starting next year prior to working here I worked for a consulting firm Municipal engineering consulting firm for 11 and a half years had the opportunity to work for the city directly for many of those years so I was very familiar with projects and people and decision makers in the early 2000s I was a project manager for short La at Hendrickson's minona office when he started like any young engineer uh it's a challenge to learn where do you put the foot on the gas and where do you take your foot off the gas pedal he kept watching I knew he was watching I knew he the brain was always engaging you could see the the wheels spinning and and he picked up on that and that's when he began to move on those things and and really progress and it was a bummer quite frankly when he said I was moving along from short Elliott and taking the job with the city Vio we hired Chad Milner to be a the assistant u city engineer um not long after that the city engineer left for another position and we promoted Chad into into the role that he's currently in now but I really like the projects the scope of projects the community is highly engaged in the projects there's funding to do projects that makes it fun as an engineer to actually get to see your projects be scoped out studied and built I've known Chad for over 20 years Chad works on a new numerous projects all the way from conceptual development all the way through construction project types include roadway Transportation traffic projects utility Improvement projects for water and sewer structural projects for roadways I could go on and on he really has a very important job in the community because the community depends on the infrastructure that Chad has designed and and built in this town Chad is you know quite the athlete natural athlete anything I think that's out there with a ball or a stick or running or riding a bike the guy just excels at it being active in doing races is real similar to planning a project you have goals of what you want to get to you got to develop steps to get there you have to develop a plan there's a schedule and you take incremental steps to either get to your race goals and hopefully get the outcome at the race event he's very intelligent he's in the community he's talking to people when we do that we want to make sure we be we meet The Guiding principles right the comprehensive plan he's listening to what people say about uh where they live and really calculating that into the engineering design and pr…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the Dina public works department recently wrapped up a service line inventory documenting materials used for water service lines throughout the city this project was part of a federal requirement under the US Environmental Protection agencies revised lead and copper rule the goal was to identify any lead or galvanized service lines requiring replacement to protect Public Health the revisions required water suppliers to complete an inventory and send it to the Minnesota Department of Health Edina submitted its findings in late August reporting no lead service lines two galvanized lines that require replacement 96 with unknown material and more than 13 ,000 non-led lines since August Public Works has finished evaluating the lines of unknown material so what we did was we started looking at all our all of our records that we had on hand and once we exhausted all those records then we started physically going out to houses and did what we call Hydro Excavating at the curb stop the curb stop is where the city ownership and the home ownership uh is separated which there we identify the material type even though the inventory is complete the city is requ required by federal law to notify Property Owners whose service lines were listed as unknown or galvanized requiring replacement in the August report those letters are expected to hit mailboxes within the next few weeks so we the city has uh two galvanized lines that need replacement on the homeowner side uh we made contact with those residents uh we have a contractor lined up already so as soon as we can just get the scheduling straightened out we're going to get those lines replaced at City cost for those those two residents learn more at eam mn.gov servine inventory the city is seeking Federal funding for a study to improve atg grade railroad crossings in Idina a rail line owned by cpkc railroad runs through the city and while many Crossings are grade separated with streets going over or under the tracks seven still remain at street level with varying levels of safety measures to address this issue the city would like to complete a railroad crossing Safety Action Plan to see what can be done to improve the situation at each of the seven at grade Crossings until recently most trains passing through Edina operated during the daytime now the railroad has begun operating these trains at night which might be disturbing residents since the train horn rule requires Engineers to sound train horns at least 15 15 seconds before entering public grade Crossings eliminating Crossings or making grade separation improvements would remove the need for trains to sound their horns at Crossings where that cannot be done other safety improvements could be evaluated to make the crossing safer we have to first study if we can eliminate any of the crossings and if we can't then what can we …
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okay here we go well good evening everybody and welcome to the Adina city council meeting for Tuesday June 4th 20124 it is 7:03 p.m. and um just a reminder as a followup to a direct Dr benro had to say uh there are folks watching this meeting virtually uh We've encouraged that during Co and postco uh in this post-pandemic environment we're allowing folks to participate remotely uh sometimes they have two opportunities to uh participate remotely uh Community comment they always have that opportunity and when we have a public hearing like we do tonight uh folks can participate remotely or live for that type of situation as well for a public hearing uh but remember remember that um um and during Community comment you cannot comment on something that's otherwise on the agenda this evening or scheduled for a future public hearing folks are uh that are in the virtual world there's your contact information that you should uh use whether you're watching on cable TV or 9 am.gov live meetings or on Facebook uh there's the way you get to our operators and the operator bring in the direct director benat who will bring you into the council for your comments and so having provided the information I'm going to call the meeting to order and ask our clerk Sharon Allison to call the role clerk Allison actually deput city clerk excuse me I didn't look down there it's okay no worries so sorry council member agnu here we were just with her upstairs and I just assumed she was down here too thank you it's all good council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member Risser here mayor huffland here so I better work on my aware situational awareness a little bit better I guess um all right next is the Pledge of Allegiance folks alance to of the United States of America to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all we have published uh for the council and for our residents a form of meeting agenda for the meeting this evening is there anyone on the council or from the staff standpoints that wishes to modify the meeting agenda in any former fashion is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda is published so moved second member Jackson moves member Pier second the adoption of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion all those in favor of adoption of the meeting agenda is published say I I I opposed carried the meeting agenda is adopted uh now we are at Community comment and so um we'll first go to uh some of our fellow residents that are in the audience that wish to address the Council on matters of concern to them and then we'll give Folks at home a chance to kind of gear up and get ready to call in if they haven't called in already on community comments so let's um go to the folks in the audience is there anyone that wishes to address the Council on a matter of concerned to them it's not on the agenda or scheduled for a future public hearing yes welcome good evening my name is Ralph…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city is helping a new coffee shop and crepe Bakery open at 44th in France o crepe is working to open at 4408 France Avenue serving buckwheat Savory Crepes sweet Crepes and crepe cakes I moved to Minn and I'm just I'm really passionate about my roots and where I'm from and I'm from Britany France which is the region of France where creps originated um and so when I came to Minnesota I couldn't find a good CP and I thought I need to show these people what it's what it's how it's done and what it tastes like the Housing and Redevelopment Authority recently approved grants to the business and the property owner to make improvements to the space formerly used by Caribou Coffee the front entrance needs to be remodeled in order to create an accessible entrance as part of the project energy efficient storefront glass will also be added the property owner needs to reconstruct the rear parking lot to simplify access into the rear doors of the building both grants will come out of the special projects and Redevelopment capital or spark fund established by state legislation in 2021 to create jobs and attract brick and mortar investment any Dina spark streamlined grants such as these provide up to $24,000 for building shell improvements that create jobs so this grant program is specifically intended to help that small business owner leap over a hurdle that they didn't expect to encounter um almost every small business owner faces that type of hurdle and we're hoping that with this grant we can attract more small businesses to let them locate here expand here and Thrive here oh CR is scheduled to open this summer the rear parking lot project might not be complete until fall it only takes a few Acres of Marshland to host billions of mosquito eggs just the thought of it would have most of us reaching for the bug repellent fortunately the Metropolitan mosquito control district has a better solution it's working to prevent mosquitoes from Taking Flight in the first place Indina TV shows us how they do it just below the surface of any neighborhood pond have to get pretty close a new brood of mosquitoes are waiting for the right time to hatch all we're doing is dipping the water uh to see if there's any larvae present and sometimes the larvae are really really small to defeat a flying pest the Metropolitan mosquito control district got it yep is also taking to the skies this local government agency operates within the sount metro area surveilling and and treating hundreds of sites for mosquito larvae at Highlands Park this drone will deliver small pellets lethal to mosquitoes but not Wildlife it is called spinoid that's the active ingredient um and basically it's a bacterium derivative uh that kind of once it's in the water it disperses and gets absorbed by the mosquito and kills them this aerial delivery method is not only faste…
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for there goes summer uh 7:34 p.m. or a.m. excuse me 7:34 a.m. and this is the d Housing Redevelopment Authority meeting at the city hall council chambers and I think you've been instructed that uh there is a chance to participate in community comment this morning you can call in the number I think that'll come up on the screen momentarily uh and we get to that part of the agenda fairly quickly so people should be writing these numbers down so they can call in if they have a concern they want to discuss with the HRA that's not on the agenda this morning or otherwise scheduled for a future public hearing before the HRA so having provided that information I'll call the meeting to order and ask our administrative planning specialist Liz Olsson to call the role commissioner Risser here commissioner Jackson here commissioner Pierce here commissioner U here chair huband here uh next is a pledge of allegiance of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and we have a form of meeting agenda is there anyone that wishes to modify the agenda in any former fashion not I'll entertain a motion to adopt the meeting agenda is show so moved commissioner Jackson moves second commissioner U seconds the adoption of the meeting agenda any further discussion all those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda is published say I I I opposed carried the meeting agenda is adopted uh and next Community comment we are back up at the time for Community comment and do we have anyone in the audience that wishes to address the h and a matter of concern to them that's not on the agenda or otherwise scheduled for a future public hearing hearing nothing and seeing no one coming forward do we have anybody online I do not have anyone online but because there is a slight delay in the broadcast I would recommend we wait a minute or so before moving on my clock shows that it's 7:34 so I will come back to you at 7:35 or when I have a call or whichever is first thank you what is assuredly one of the longest minutes of your day has now passed and you may move on with the agenda all right very good thank you um our practice is to have the executive dor director respond to community comments that were made at the pr meeting our executive director also our city manager uh the same position different hats anything to comment on there there's nothing to comment on uh there's only one item on the consent agenda and that's the draft minutes of the regular meeting of June 13 2024 is there a motion to adopt the uh draft minutes of the regular meeting of June 13 2024 for the h so moved commission Jackson moves commissioner Pier seconds the adoption of the draft minutes or the minutes of the regular meeting of June 13 2024 any further discussion those in favor of adopting the minutes of the regular meeting on June 13 20124 say I I I opposed carried those minutes are adopted and then we'll move on to reports a…
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[Music] in 1988 radon was classified as a human carcinogen since then much research and effort has gone into finding homes that may be affected in fact two and five Minnesota homes have high radon levels but what is radon and what can you do to protect your home and family from it Edina TV's Tom Cornell has the story this 1986 EPA Journal detailed the story of why a nuclear engineer was setting off alarms at a new nuclear plant with no fuel installed yet the reason extremely high levels of radon in his home radon is a gas that occurs naturally um it's in underground uh we see it everywhere um it's a problem because if it gets into our homes and the level concentrates it can cause cancer approximately 21,000 people die in the US every year from radon caused lung cancer because of this the US EPA has declared January as radon action month and uh uranium is where radon comes from it's decaying uranium way under the ground and once it does it comes up through the cracks and things in the ground comes into our homes through the same kind of cracks in the floor or open some baskets mortar joints essentially any opening between the soil and the home from there it can build up especially in homes H that are sealed up during the winter which is why testing is so important hi can I get a radon kit we work with the Minnesota Department of Health and we make the Ron test kits available they're just $5 you can come in it's a short-term test pick one up thank you have a good day you too detectors come with easy to follow instructions you want to hang it up as quickly as as you open it and don't wait a day or two all the information is in the kit here about why to test where to test all the best uh spots in your home to do that then you want to follow the instructions as carefully as you can to make sure that we're we've get an uh reading as accurate as we can uh you'll open up the end keep the cardboard in there during the collection period and once you have that open like that it's going to collect the radon you want it hanging in uh the lowest area of your home that's occupied hang it at I level that's going to get us our best information the detector will be in place from 3 to 7 days days after that you simply seal it up fill out the form on the back and drop it in the mail the Minnesota Department of Health has this guide on their website with details including what to do if the testing reveals High rate on levels in your home how to find licensed contractors accessing financial support and more it's very simple to do and within a few days or few weeks even with the lab work you'll know if if you have an elevated level in your house free din TV I'm Tom Cornell picking up a radon detector kit is as easy as stopping by Fire Station 1 on Tracy Avenue please bring $5 in cash
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[Music] close to 4,000 students Walk The Halls of Valley View Middle and Edina High School on any day of the week you'll find the city's two school resource officers there as well their work of helping to keep schools safe also includes time for fun Edina TV shows us how socializing and safety go handin hand 88: a.m. can feel early for these Valley View Middle School students all right but they're awake preparing for an important day of testing MCA that means no visory no flex you're going straight to your testing site this before school program is called hornet Central 1 2 go and it's not only for studying that was a nice kick and on this day got it it's not only for students kids get a chance to have some fun burn some energy before going to class for the whole day joining them is school resource officer Kyle Water Street how often do you get to throw dodgeballs at a cop this is Officer Water Street second year in a position where Safety and Security are top priorities but so is spending time like this with students I look at it as a way to try to build relationships with students and if you can build those positive relationships and get them strong nice and early the chance of having to deal with a student at least in my mind on a negative aspect is less the city has two school resource officers also called sro's Joseph Delah Housen is assigned to the high school together they're an integral part of the school district Safety and Security plan when a crisis does come up and inevitably in public schools that does happen uh they are are direct connection to um the police department superintendent Dr Stacy Stanley says those one-on-one relationships are tied to safety you know hear kids all the time talking about officer Joe and just how important he is or officer Kyle and how they're able to talk to him and um that just plays a significant role as kids are out in the community in the event anything does happen in the future um those relationships are established and there's a sense of trust you got this trust built on daily conversations and fist bumps I wanted to get into the position because I want to make connections I want to try to help uh kids when they're maybe a little bit younger in terms of trying to make good decisions when students already have a lot in their minds they know school resource officers are never far away they allow our staff and our kids to feel safe often times when you um ask students whether or not they want SRO in the schools the students will tell us that they do at Valley View Middle School I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV the police department offers the school resource officer assignment as a rotating position the term can last between 3 and 4 years depending on the needs of the school district and police department
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[Music] ID lost a true legend last month when Willert Iola passed away at the age of 92 following a successful career as a hockey goalie including leading the US team to an Olympic silver medal coach Ike served as the din boys hockey coach from 1958 until 1991 with the help of archival interviews of Coach Ike himself Edina TV presents a look back at the man and the career that helped Define Edina hockey forever we will now ask you to please join us in a moment of silence for our Edina coaching Legend and just as it did for his coaching career coach Mela signature Hound to hat will join the Hornets on the bench this evening my first year at Ed High School hockey was coach Ike's first year not coaching I had grown up all these years watching my brothers play looking at the Fedora behind the bench stern look note card in hand and always wanting to play for Ike any D of hockey well uh I got here in in uh uh 5758 uh I came out of the service and this was my first coaching job was Edina he was a motivator he was good with words he pulled you into the coach's room sometimes and you had some little one-on ones but it was all positive everything was POS positive and that's what I can say about him is most positive guy I've ever met at that time there was nothing written about hockey there was no manuals no books written on hockey the only way you learn as a coach is by talking to other coaches and which I did that summer I was lucky to get rehired again beina Hockey didn't exist really I mean we had some great coaches and some people came in but you know on the term cake eaters he created the cake eaters he created the success and what I love about it he did it with an Iron Range feel of hard work and discipline he get you into in drills and he's kind of making you pay a little I mean you paid attention to to to what he said because there was always repercussions from and but he was so good at it ath had a rink I believe in International Falls had a rank uh indoor and that was a big deal because then you could play outside of the elements and there was no rank down in in Minneapolis at that time in ' 6566 Brer was built and that really turned the tight for us uh not only for us but for our association good conditions no wind and we had some good kids coming up that were coming through the system I played 67 68 and 69 69 we were the first state champions he was really good at helping you keep your cool and he'd always get on the bus and say got your blades blades mouthpiece here we go let's go play some hardnose hockey and and let's go out there together so we won the first title in 69 and without Brar I don't think that would have been imp possible it really helped our program not only at the high school but at the youth program and and I said many times that you're only as strong as that VI pram you go as a young kid and you say I want to be a part of that I want to be a part of that and and that's what I think has been really neat about the legacy of a …
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty big changes are coming to wannab din's oldest hotels the Marriott Residence Inn located at Edinburgh way and 78th Street will soon be converted into affordable apartments Alpha Investment Group plans to transform the 133 Hotel into a 136 unit apartment building the conversion will focus on maximizing what's already there with no major expansions to the building the only site changes will be adding Landscaping along Edinburgh way and 78th Street to improve screening for the parking lot originally built as part of the mixed use Edinburgh development it opened as a corporate-owned Hawthorne Suites with 142 guest units today the hotel has 133 guest units seven Studios 119 one bedroom and 7 two-bedroom units the plans to create three additional Apartments includes repurposing a storage unit and separating spaces previously combined during an earlier remodeling project Alpha plans for the new apartments to be what's known as naturally occurring affordable housing monthly rents are projected to be 1,1 00 for studios and 1,250 for one-bedroom units we're excited from the standpoint that we can deliver rentable units in a very quick way where we're not waiting years and we don't got funding delays and all the stuff you would associate with a project that's going to be affordable to a lot of people right in the immediate Southdale area that come in here for employment work on the project is scheduled to begin soon Alpha hopes to make the units available for rent and move in by mid2 25
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty a long-awaited replacement is coming to the pedestrian bridge over MInnesota Highway 62 the city will hire a fabricator to help finalize plans for a new accessible pedestrian bridge the current Bridge which does not meet Americans with Disabilities Act standards was built in the 1960s and is owned and managed by the Minnesota Department of Transportation the bridge is an important piece of infrastructure connecting the Northeast and Southeast parts of Edina it's also a critical connection for pedestrians and cyclists to safely access Roslin Park and its amenities including the Aquatic Center the bridge was significantly damaged in 201 22 when it was struck twice by trucks the second Collision resulted in the closure of the bridge for most of 2022 until expensive temporary repairs were made in January 2023 since that time the city and mindat have been in discussions about replacing the bridge funding for the project has been secured with a successful State bonding request and mindat funds the project team of Bolton and M and snow kic architect was hired in June and has developed some designs with unique steel truss angles and attachments a bridge fabricator will be able to provide input on the attachment details of the facade and estimate costs at this stage and eventually make the steel truss Bridge itself we're at about 30% design for this pedestrian bridge and we're at a point where a fabricator will be able to help us estimate the true cost of the project we have a $6 million budget we want to ensure that we stay within the budget and that the bridge fabricator will do estimating help us get plans from 30 to 100% designed they'll talk to us about how they're going to transport this bridge and then we're looking at a unique feature on the bridge whether the bridge has a straight 90° steel truss structure or are we going to camber that out 10° and that's really another key point of having a fabricator is they will better be able to estimate the cost to do that work how are we going to transport it again how are we going to bring it to the site and then eventually install it over a active highway on Highway 62 if the project remains on track final bridge plans would be complete in September with construction in 2026 upon completion the city will own and be responsible for maintenance of the bridge the Opus group a prominent developer is looking to move its headquarters and they might be setting their sights on Aina Opus is proposing to tear down the four story office building at 5100 Eden Avenue and build a new 112,000 Square ft five-story office building that would potentially include a restaurant or retail space on the first floor Opus corporate headquarters would occupy a portion of the building Opus presented a sketch last month to the Edina City Council Members gave non-binding feedback on the project we thin…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty city manager Scott Neil has trimmed the city's 2025 budget by 1% as requested by the city council when it approved the levy increase in December the city council approved a formal budget amendment at its February 4th meeting finalizing a budget of $ 47.3 million with an 8.44 per Levy increase for 2025 the approval included a spending reduction package totaling $545,000 some of the items removed from the budget include a half mile of the Public Works Department's Mill and overlay program the chatbot feature on the city's website eliminating or delaying a revision of the Southdale District design guidelines and reducing money allocated for equipment replacement I was able to work with the Department directors in our police and fire and public works and parks and all of our other uh directors to to find areas where we could reduce spending that would have the least amount of negative impact on our residents I presented the the package of reductions to the council at the February 4th council meeting uh they received those they had a chance to look through them ahead of time uh they asked me some questions about it at the meeting and then they approved the package unanimously the early 2026 2027 budget projections with current service levels and planned projects require a significant Levy increase that is not palatable to members of the city council the finance department is leading the effort to get ahead in the budget planning process to examine all options for reducing those projections two work session were held with the city council earlier this month to provide members with a better understanding of each Department's Services before a retreat to talk more about the budget in March a small housing project is being considered on Vernon Avenue abundance properties is proposing to replace a single family home at 5516 Vernon Avenue with four town homes on the 1 acre site abundance properties presented a sketch plan last month to the din City Council Members gave non-binding feedback on the project the super exciting thing about this project is one the size of the lot the location of the lot and uh really what we're planning to do with it our project adds density along a busy uh street so the families coming in uh are one building Community but also more likely to use that Transit uh which helps the environment over for all to move forward the developer would need to request comprehensive plan Amendment resoning and site plan review anyone who has driven walked biked or traveled in any way through Edina over the past 12 years has experienced the work that engineering director Chad Milner has supervised the impact that civil engineering can have on a city and a region is significant and as demonstrated at a recent award presentation the city of Edina has one of the best in the business overseeing its engineering departm…
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all right we are ready to go welcome everybody to the July 24th man Summer's almost over huh 20 2024 City viina Planning Commission meeting on behalf of the rest of the plan commission uh we're excited you're here whether in person or tuning in remotely say it every time but your curiosity your participation and your feedback is vital to this process as we navigate change together here in Idina specifically regarding the ways in which we'd like to use our land so we have one public hearing on the agenda tonight a site plan review and Zing ordinance Amendment 7200 France Avenue I'll get into the specifics on what to expect when we get to that portion later you heard some details as we first began uh but you can hold tight no problem uh for those who are new give you a rundown of what to expect tonight we'll start with a call to order then roll call followed that by an approval of tonight's meeting agenda followed by the previous meeting minutes we will then have the community comment period as noted this is your chance for those who are here in person to speak about a matter not on tonight's agenda after that we have the public hearing which is the portion of the meeting where you have the chance to speak about that matter on tonight's agenda and then we have one report and recommendation after that and that is one of our commission uh work plan items areas of potential change we have commissioner Miranda who will present on that uh that'll give you a flavor of kind of what we are up to behind the scenes and tonight's meeting is uh when we kind of react and apply the code after that we have chair member comments followed by staff comments and then adjournment uh it's important to know that any and all feedback makes its way to us and we consider it as we make recommendations for approval or denial tonight uh we do so most prominently through our engagement website ww. better together.org if you're unfamiliar with that that is the best catchall for any potential and current development that may or may not be happening around your neighborhood uh there are new features on that as of you know the last year including kind of a map that has a development tracker so you can better see what's closer to home without further ado will get into the meeting thank you for being here call to order and then roll call commissioner El here commissioner Miranda here commissioner Smith here commissioner Schultz here commissioner day here commissioner Borstein here commissioner phelp here commissioner hanaman here chair Bennett here thank you next we have the approval of tonight's meeting agenda make a motion to approve tonight's agenda second second I'd like to amend the agenda okay so I'd like to postpone postpone the report and recommendation on areas of potential change until the next till the next meeting because we had a lot of progress today the past 24 hours but uh that we needed to have that was still not finished so I think it'd be better to have it at the …
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty city manager Scott Neil has trimmed the city's 2025 budget by 1% as requested by the city council when it approved the levy increase in December the city council approved a formal budget amendment at its February 4th meeting finalizing a budget of $ 47.3 million with an 8.44 per Levy increase for 2025 the approval included a spending reduction package totaling $545,000 some of the items removed from the budget include a half mile of the Public Works Department's Mill and overlay program the chatbot feature on the city's website eliminating or delaying a revision of the Southdale District design guidelines and reducing money allocated for equipment replacement I was able to work with the Department directors in our police and fire and public works and parks and all of our other uh directors to to find areas where we could reduce spending that would have the least amount of negative impact on our residents I presented the the package of reductions to the council at the February 4th council meeting uh they received those they had a chance to look through them ahead of time uh they asked me some questions about it at the meeting and then they approved the package unanimously the early 2026 2027 budget projections with current service levels and planned projects require a significant Levy increase that is not palatable to members of the city council the finance department is leading the effort to get ahead in the budget planning process to examine all options for reducing those projections two work session were held with the city council earlier this month to provide members with a better understanding of each Department's Services before a retreat to talk more about the budget in March
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all right wow hello yeah okay welcome everybody lots of people out there uh today is Wednesday the June 12th city of din Planning Commission meeting it is the year 2024 I'll get into the Rhythm I missed the last meeting so here we go uh like most Planning Commission meetings we welcome you and we thank you for being here whether in person or tuning in remotely your participation curiosity and feedback is vital to this process as we navigate change together uh specifically regarding the ways in which we'd like to use our land it's important to know that your feedback however you sent it in whether it was through the engagement website better together.org or through email it got to us and we will have reviewed it and considered it tonight before we make our recommendations we have one public hearing on the agenda and when we get to that I'll give you some of the instructions if you're tuning in remotely with how you can jump into the queue uh if you're quick you can look at the screen now and call that number get that access code and password in and then you'll hit star three when you're ready to speak but we'll get there in a little bit all right so without further Ado we will call this meeting to order and roll call um commissioner Aly here commissioner Pia here commissioner Smith here commissioner Schultz here commissioner day here commissioner Bornstein here commissioner hannaman here chair Bennett here next order of business is the approval of tonight's meeting agenda welcome a motion motion to approve the agenda second all those in favor say I I I so moved next we have the approval of the prior meeting minutes as well as the special work session on May 22nd uh we'd welcome a motion to approve both minutes unless there proposed changes I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes however there are one or two changes to name that were in the minutes that were sent to us which Liz knows about and will change they're just small spelling errors um so she's going to change those so motion to approve With The Changes Liz will make second all those in favor say I so moved all right next we have the community comment period of the agenda and that is your opportunity for whoever is here in person to speak about any matter that is not onto tonight's agend agenda and you can come up to the podium State your full name address you have 3 minutes to speak and we'll let you know when your time is up hey no one behind that screen all right we're safe to move on from that one and now we have the public hearing portion of tonight's agenda like most public hearings there is an application uh whether that's a resident a developer or it's the city of itself or one of its uh departments and staff will have done their research Pro put together a report for us to read through and uh consider staff will then provide a presentation to us we'll go back and forth with some questions and then if there is a separate applicant we'll have a chance to let them present too…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty City staff is working on an ordinance to control where cannabis is sold in Edina when the state's office of cannabis management or ocm begins issuing licenses in 2025 adults 21 and older have been allowed to use cannabis since since last August however cannabis cannot be sold in Minnesota until the ocm is able to issue licenses expected on or around January 1st 2025 municipalities are required to allow cannabis licenses issued by the state the city May adopt an ordinance covering some specific local regulations including the maximum number of licenses to be issued cost of registration and Zoning District cannabis businesses will be allowed to operate in state law also allows cities to establish buffers from schools dayc carees residential treatment facilities or attractions within a public park that are regularly used by miners including playgrounds and athletic fields at least once a year cities are required to conduct compliance checks of every cannabis and hemp business at a work session last month City staff presented its initial recommendations it's been an interesting thing uh we've had a group of Staff working on it a small like Committee of Staff working on it from planning to health to Administration um and other departments um so we've gotten input from lots of places um and we're trying to we're trying to make a a good decision for the current time and this is a new thing for the state so um hopefully we we we hit The Sweet Spot the city is required to allow one license per every 12,500 residents so Edina could limit the number to five or allow more the city council directed staff to draft the ordinance with a maximum of five a City May impose an initial retail fee of $500 or up to half the amount of the state's license fee whichever is less staff recommended charging the maximum amount for registration until the city fully understands the staff work associated with the process many cities choose to Zone cannabis retailers similar to tobacco and liquor stores any Dina those stores are permitted in the planned commercial districts or PCD examples of pcd1 zoned areas for smaller neighborhood businesses are Valley View and Wooddale 44th in France 70th in Cahill and Lincoln and London Dairy PCD too allows for more and slightly larger commercial businesses examples are Grand View and 50th in France PCD 3 allows the most and largest commercial businesses and is limited to the Southdale District to best scatter such businesses across the city the council directed staff to draft an ordinance including all three pcds the public will be invited to weigh in on the draft order during a public hearing later this year residents can provide testimony at that time online at betterto together.org by voicemail or by attending the meeting when the matter is considered
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7:36 in the morning I'm apologizing for being the last one here I forgot that we had to do a more securist route to get to City Hall so uh call to order not quite yet the meeting of the uh Housing and Redevelopment Authority uh I think as director Ben I probably indicated to folks in the chambers and online that uh uh we're doing these meetings in a hybrid fashion There's an opportunity to participate whether you're here in Chambers or uh watching the meeting if you're watching the meeting uh through one form or another you can call in during Community comment and that number is on the screen all that information you need to be able to get to the HRA to discuss a matter of concerned to you is there and having provided that information I'll call the meeting to order and ask Sheron Ellison is with us this morning our city clerk to call the role commissioner agon here commissioner Jackson here commissioner Pierce here commissioner rer here chair huin here uh next is the Pledge of Allegiance Al to the flag of the United States of America and to the for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you for that participation and uh we've got a form of meeting agenda is anyone on staff or HRA that wishes to modify the meeting agenda in any form or fashion all right is there a motion to approve the meeting agenda so moved second commissioner Jackson moves commissioner um U seconds the approval of the meeting agenda uh any further discussion all those in favor of approving the me meeting agenda say I I I opposed carried uh now we are at Community comment um and let's get that number back on the screen and while we're waiting for some of our fellow residents to potentially call in we'll see if anyone in the audience wishes to address the uh H in a matter of concern to them hearing nothing and seeing no one coming forward I'll turn to director benat to see if she has anybody online I do not yet have anyone on the line but because there is a short delay in the broadcast I'd recommend we wait one minute or so before we move on with the agenda my clock shows it it's 7:37 now so I'll come back to you at 7:38 or when I have a call or whichever is first thank you e it's been a minute and I still don't have any callers so I think it's safe for you to move forward with the agenda all right very good thank you um our practice is to have our executive director respond to community comments that we're made at the uh meeting prior meeting of the um HRA and that meeting was on May 16th uh executive director Neil anything to comment on uh your honor no no Mr chair we did not have any Community comment at the May 16th meeting very good uh next is the consent agenda there's only one item on there that's the draft minutes of the regular meeting of May 16th 2024 any changes to additions to those minutes there a motion to adopt the minutes of the regular meeting of May 20 May 16 2024 so moved second Jackson moves commissioner AG seco…
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[Music] summer is the season for finding road construction in your path and Edina is no exception big safety improvements are being made to the area of 50th inrange Street next to City Hall but to complete them the area must be completely closed to traffic if you're asking what changes are being made and how you navigate the detours Edina TV has the answers if you've walked or cycled along 50th Street near City Hall you know traffic is never far away the Sunny Slope neighborhood had lot of concerns about being able to walk safely you can see the cars going by they're right on the edge of the road the sidewalks right on the edge of the road a transportation study confirmed more can be done including traffic improvements new roundabouts near City Hall were added in 2023 now phase two begins what's the light at the end of the tunnel for residents when it comes to this traffic like this traffic situation here good example right so yeah we just saw uh somebody trying to make a left turn on the Dale there will now be a turn lane for that eastbound 50th to Northbound Dale so we won't have the people honking near misses and all that stuff it's really trying to make it safer for all modes of transportation in addition to that turn lane there will be new medians on 50th Street combined with those wider sidewalks the traffic Lanes will be more narrow that'll hopefully constrict the the flow of traffic and slow people down more changes are coming to the intersection with Grange Road after our project you're going to see a new traffic signal here that'll have dedicated left turns new crosswalks on all legs of the intersection this intersection will look a lot different with a big retaining wall right behind me new trees will be planted when the work is done on June 10 The Detour signs went up for this $3.2 million project drivers began the process of learning how to circumnavigate a familiar Road for local residents with the road closure on 50th the best route for those local trips is Eden Avenue and that Eden Avenue connection connects at Vernon and it connects through south of City Hall connects back to 50th Street so eastbound or westbound your best choice is Eden Avenue a road construction project well on its way so all users of 50th Street can be on their way by Summer's end I'm Dan Carpenter for Adina TV the 50th Street and gra Road Improvement project is expected to be completed the third week of August before school starts in the fall visit betterto together.org for detour maps and the latest updates on the project
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty affordable housing is being considered for development adjacent to the new Fire Station 2 the city bought an 8 acre property on West 76th Street to build the new fire station which will take up less than half the site one option the city is exploring is the development of housing to meet 's affordable housing goals so housing on this site uh would help the city uh with achieving its comprehensive plan goal of uh providing approximately 1,800 units uh of affordable housing by 2030 um and also uh helping the city with meeting its climate action plan goals uh reducing VMT and increasing public transit ridership by providing more housing near near Transit and jobs the Dina housing Foundation hired lhb architecture and engineering to create concepts for housing on the site the foundation and lhb presented three preliminary ideas to the city council at a work session earlier this month one option is five sets of 4unit twostory town homes another is a four-story apartment building with 45 to 50 units and three sets of 4unit two-story Town Homes the third option is most dense with both three and four-story apartment buildings on the site council members gave the foundation feedback on the proposals and asked for additional information to move forward with the project the foundation would need to request control of the site from the city the cost of the land if acquired by the foundation has not been determined the city's new diversity equity and inclusion manager began work earlier this summer Thomas Brooks will continue the work needed to follow through on the city's vision of providing a high quality of life for all its residents Edina TV shows us how Thomas is approaching his new role in any Community change is unavoidable but how a city views and reacts to that change takes intention Thomas Brooks has been on the job as the new diversity equity and inclusion manager for only a couple months but he's taken that time to learn and gather data it's a great way for me and for staff to one make sure that we understand the community um who's actually in the community and who's actually accessing City programs and services Brooks arrived at the city after working for the state of Minnesota a move he says brings him closer to both employees and residents on a day-to-day basis I look at a city like AA and certainly something special has been built here in the city but I also look at a city like AA and there there is so much potential and opportunity particularly when we start to leverage um an inclusive and and and Equity lens and the work that we're doing work that includes looking at guiding documents one of the things that Thomas and I will be working really closely on and also having the opportunity to engage the community in is as we look at our Equity strategic action plan to how can we move our community forward and foll…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty two members of the Adina Police Department were recently recognized for their outstanding service by the Edina Community Foundation we try to get it where more people realize how important paramedics firefighters your police officers but your dispatch people all the ones that are working behind the scenes to get these officers police and firefighters to you and they they have a right to be acknowledged for the job that they do when they put their lives on the line for you and me in this community the 2023 Public Safety employee of the year award was given to record specialist Kimberly tubs tubs has been with the department since 20120 she was given the award for her help in implementing and training staff on a new Software System for the 911 dispatch Center and the records division tubs also took on a lot of extra duties when there was a staffing transition in the records division and when her assistance was needed after two homicides in 20203 Kim's dedication to the advancements of the department her positive disposition and her willingness to help with any challenge presented demonstrates why she's deserving of the public safety employee of the year award for 2023 the 2023 Mike satari officer of the year award was presented to Sergeant Darren cesak cesak has been with the department since 2003 he was given the award for his off-duty actions during a 2023 shooting in Idina in which he used quick thinking and concise communication to help direct incoming resources to the threat in 2023 cesic also transitioned to overseeing the investigations division he performed 40 background checks for various positions within the agency which were crucial for Staffing the police department effectively when you work with such talented individuals and to be singled as the officer of the year I guess it's it's very humbling the awards were presented at a public safety awards banquet for the police and fire departments in March and then again in front of the din city council earlier this month
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[Music] the city has created a new tax increment financing or Tiff District to support public improvements tied to the Redevelopment of the 9 acre Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery site on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities secured approvals earlier this fall for the project which will include four new buildings the existing store will relocate and the existing building will be raised one of the new buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven-story mixed use building with Apartments the other two will be seven-story apartment buildings one of those will also have space for a restaurant each building will include indoor parking for residents employees and customers the street level parking stalls would be available to the general public the site plan is arranged with new roadways sidewalks and Landscaping areas that will be available to the general public the existing 9M Creek bicycle trail will remain on the southern edge of the property the development team plans to invest nearly 310 million in the project under the Tiff Redevelopment agreements approved by the city council after the new 72nd and France three Tiff District was established the city and Housing and Redevelopment Authority pledged up to nearly 23 million to reimburse a portion of eligible costs using a combination of Tiff and a grant from the city's special projects and Redevelopment capital or spark fund what we be using those Tiff dollars for is to reimburse the developer for a lot of those costs that are really unique to the site that create public benefit and make the project possible so for example raising the existing building cleaning up the property it's an 8 Acre Site that used to be gravel and sand pit so there's really no portion of this building other than what's behind us today that's even buildable so there's a lot of site preparation that has to happen that's millions of dollars and then the final project has a lot of the public space on the exterior as well as public parking on the interior affordable housing units all those things that deliver public benefit cost a lot of money and that's where the Tiff will be spent establishing the Tiff district and approving the Tiff Redevelopment agreements with the developers were the first few of many regulatory and procedural steps in the process approval of each design or construction project to fund public infrastructure projects would be approved by the city council or Housing and Redevelopment Authority
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[Music] T the season the Dina police and fire departments are collecting donations for the Toys for tot's holiday gift program donations will be accepted at the police department and Fire Station 1 through 5:00 p.m. Tuesday December 17th new unwrapped toys along with gifts for older kids and teens will be accepted in the police and fire department lobbies for the next several weeks the police drop off is open 24 hours a day daily while the fire drop off is available from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. 7 days a week
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city is helping a new coffee shop and crepe Bakery open at 44th in France o crepe is working to open at 4408 France Avenue serving buckwheat Savory Crepes sweet Crepes and crepe cakes I moved to Minn and I'm just I'm really passionate about my roots and where I'm from and I'm from Britany France which is the region of France where creps originated um and so when I came to Minnesota I couldn't find a good CP and I thought I need to show these people what it's what it's how it's done and what it tastes like the Housing and Redevelopment Authority recently approved grants to the business and the property owner to make improvements to the space formerly used by Caribou Coffee the front entrance needs to be remodeled in order to create an accessible entrance as part of the project energy efficient storefront glass will also be added the property owner needs to reconstruct the rear parking lot to simplify access into the rear doors of the building both grants will come out of the special projects and Redevelopment capital or spark fund established by state legislation in 2021 to create jobs and attract brick and mortar investment any Dina spark streamlined grants such as these provide up to $24,000 for building shell improvements that create jobs so this grant program is specifically intended to help that small business owner leap over a hurdle that they didn't expect to encounter um almost every small business owner faces that type of hurdle and we're hoping that with this grant we can attract more small businesses to let them locate here expand here and Thrive here oh CR is scheduled to open this summer the rear parking lot project might not be complete until fall
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host darthia Marty the municipal election is heating up the offices of Edina mayor and two city council members will be on the ballot of the general election November 5th mayor Jim hland is being challenged by former city council member Ron Anderson three candidates are vying for the two open seats on the city council incumbents Carolyn Jackson and James Pierce and planning commissioner Ryan day early voting for the general election begins September 20th residents may vote early at e din city hall or the henpen County Government Center or by mail all absentee voters are required to have a witness the mayor and each elected council member will serve a 4-year term beginning on the first Monday in January following the general election January 6th
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e e e work session upstairs and uh ran over just a touch here so we're getting our meting started just a little bit late uh as director benat mentioned uh people are watching us on television or on Ed mn.gov live meetings or on facebook.com we've been doing these meetings in a hybrid fashion uh since covid and have contined to provide the opportunity for people to watch this remote and participate on a remote basis so uh if you look at the screen they're going to put that number up again for Community comment and uh that's all we have this evening is one opportunity to talk to the council um and get that number up there would you please and uh so folks get ready because this comes up relatively quickly in the uh agenda uh if you have something you want to address uh with the council it's a concern of yours that's not on the agenda this evening or otherwise scheduled for a future public hearing you're welcome to come up uh you'll have three minutes as director benro indicated you'll get a yellow light when you got about 30 seconds to go on the podium and then you should be thinking about wrapping up your comments right at about the 3 minute Mark um so having provided that information I'm going to call the meeting of the city council to order this Tuesday July 16th 2024 and ask our clerk Sharon Allison to call the role council member agnu here council member Jackson here council member Pierce here council member rer here mayor hman here next is the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you everyone and we have a form of meeting agenda in front of us to evening is there anyone on the council or on the staff that wishes to modify the agenda any former fashion all right is there a motion to approve the agenda is published so moved Jackson moves member a second the adoption of the meeting agenda is published any further discussion those in favor of adopting the meeting agenda is published say I I I opposed carried uh now we are at Community comment and we're first going to turn to some of our fellow residents that are in the audience and so folks that are watching from home if you want to participate Community comment your opportunity will come up shortly here but uh let's first go to folks in our community here that are with us that may want to comment on something that's important for them good evening the volume is not very good on that coming up now okay Janie Weston 6136 Brookview Avenue Edina um what I felt I really need to address tonight is something that concerns me whenever there's a proposed development project within edina's City boundaries but is not within the Dina School District when it's in a neighboring School District Hopkins is one of them and Richfield is the other um we've had the Lincoln Drive uh by 169 project proposal uh that would have created quite a bit of housing but that's in the Hopkins schoo…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty edina's newest officer is working the police beat on four legs Euro a Dutch Shepherd and Officer Nick Peterson began work last month as the din Police Department's newest K9 team Euro completed extensive training earlier this spring in agility obedience tracking criminal apprehension and Handler protection the city's k9's are certified in Patrol and narcotics detection their training meets us police K9 Association standards what you see is the connections the real camaraderie that comes with these programs these handlers and their passion for keeping other people safe so that's what I think about when I look at these folks standing behind me they represent the next generation of that Excellence summer is the season for finding road construction in your path and Edina is no exception big safety improvements are being made to the area of 50th and Grange Street next to City Hall but to complete them the area must be completely closed to traffic if you're asking what changes are being made and how you navigate the detours Edina TV has the answers if you've walked or Cy along 50th Street near City Hall you know traffic is never far away the Sunny Slope neighborhood had a lot of concerns about being able to walk safely you can see the cars going by they're right on the edge of the road the sidewalks right on the edge of the road a transportation study confirmed more can be done including traffic improvements new roundabouts near City Hall were added in 2023 now Phase 2 begins what's the light at the end of the tunnel for residents when it comes to this traffic like this traffic situation here yes good example right so yeah we just saw uh somebody trying to make a left turn on the Dale there will now be a turn lane for that eastbound 50th to Northbound Dale so we won't have the people honking near misses and all that stuff it's really trying to make it safer for all mods of Transportation in addition to that turn lane there will be new medians on 50th Street combined with those wider sidewalks the traffic Lanes will be more narrow that'll hopefully constrict the the flow of traffic and slow people down more changes are coming to the intersection with gra Road after our project you're going to see a new traffic signal here that'll have dedicated left turns new crosswalks on all legs of the intersection this intersection will look a lot different with a big retaining wall right behind me new trees will be planted when the work is done on June 10 The Detour signs went up for this $3.2 million project drivers began the process of learning how to circumnavigate a familiar Road for local residents with the road closure on 50th the best route for those local trips is Eden Avenue and that Eden Avenue connection connects at Vernon and it connects through south of City Hall connects back to 50th Street so eastbound or westbound yo…
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[Music] from tackling flood risks to enhancing infrastructure Ross bitner's work has a lasting impact on Idina recently the American public works association's Minnesota chapter named Ross Bitner the city's Engineering Services manager Public Works manager of the year with 12 years of service to the city he's been recognized for his dedication and innovative solutions Edina TV takes a closer look at how bitner's efforts continue to improve life in our community this is the first of its kind in Minnesota Weber Park is home to a large pond popular with four pod here's a whole bunch of ducks and feathered visitors the duck was trying to get up on the ice here and then here's a whole bunch of ducks but this Pond is also doing important work we just had a a storm a few days back and the Pond paused its normal pump down process so it's actually holding water about a foot higher than normal right now this is called smart infrastructure and it can prevent damaging floods in the Morningside neighborhood it makes a forecast of how much water is going to be coming and then it'll actually pump down ahead of time the Morningside flood infrastructure project was named environmental project of the Year by the American public works Association Minnesota chapter we're just over a thousand members primarily engineer uh working for cities the counties and States it also selected Engineering Services manager Ross Bitner as manager of the Year Ross is just a fantastic guy really committed to the industry not just within the city of udina but the entire industry advocating for storm water type projects environmental improvements um just to make sure that he leaves his position and leaves the community in a better place than when he started none of the work really happens alone you know it's fun to work on uh these teams and with the spirit of Public Service uh driving us what we do is really make sure that you know normal happens every day in a community work that often goes unrecognized so the apwa celebrates projects that are making a difference and the people who make it happen it's easy to push the processes that were in place before you uh Ross doesn't do that he's willing to dive into the details talk about what works what doesn't and really push some of these initiatives that we need to a lot of times they're hard expensive create a lot more work but they do leave the world in a better place than when he started Bitner says for those entering the engineering field working in the public sector comes with lasting rewards what we build uh is here on the landscape and our successes and our failures are right there in front of the community so when you really get a project that's a hit that uh connects with what what the community wants um you know you couldn't take this away from people because uh it's really uh it's knit into the fabric and in a community built largely during the post World War II boom years there's a lot more work to do we want this community be …
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all right all right all right excited time tonight thank you guys welcome everybody to the Wednesday May 8th May 2024 City viina Planning Commission meeting say it every time but on behalf of the Planning Commission we're grateful you are here in person and for those tuning in remotely your curiosity your participation and your feedback is instrumental to this process as we navigate change here together in Nina specifically regarding the way in which we like to use our land so the Planning Commission here we're we're nine residents of Idina we're quasi judicial body uh in the time you don't see us we work to make the zoning laws a little better more favorable for residents in our future here and the times you do see us we make decisions applying the law so we have one public hearing tonight and we have a pretty cool special recognition and presentation that will take some of our time time other than that we will jump right into calling this meeting to order and then roll call commissioner Aly here commissioner Padia here commissioner Schultz here commissioner day here commissioner Bornstein here commissioner phelp here commissioner hanaman here chair Bennett here next we have the approval of tonight's meeting agenda I'd welcome a motion if there are any proposed changes to it move to approve the agenda second all those in favor say I I so moved next we have the approval of the prior meeting minutes the work session minutes will be prepared for next meeting just FY if there's a motion to approve those I'd welcome it motion to approve the meeting minutes all those in oh second all those in favor say hi hi so moved all right next we have some special recognitions and presentations I saw this floating around online before I check my my uh my packet for this week so it's nice to see the words traveling around town and hopefully people had a chance to see this too welcome the University of Minnesota resilient communities project study report team I know Addison you'll kind of lead it and introduce everyone but uh take it away all right good evening chair and Commissioners um our sustainability specialist Matthew gab couldn't be here this evening so ask me to give a brief introduction uh for this project and uh intro to the student team uh so next year the sustainability division will be doing an evaluation of the climate action plan um to analyze whether we are on track to meet our greenhouse gas reduction goal of 45% by the year 2030 to set this evaluation up for success and in building on the city's history of providing learning and academic opportunities for students former sustainability manager Grace Hancock and current sustainability specialist Matthew gab successfully applied uh for a University of Minnesota resilient communities project team to complete a study uh to evaluate if he is transportation emission reduction targets and strategies are achievable the intention of this study is to explore options and understand what might be achievable …
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[Music] the city's Parks and Recreation Department has partnered with the Rotary Club of Edina on a pilot project to help save lives in the community for many years City facilities have had accessible automated external defibrillators or aeds to empower people to provide medical assistance to sudden Cardiac Arrest victims until paramedics arrive now the city is pting a project to bring aeds to its outdoor locations where the public gathers and exercises pamel park it has so many uses it's used for outdoor ice ranks used for all sorts of Athletics and just general Park users walking the paths and and um just having this life-saving tool here is is awesome for all the people that use this park the Rotary Club of Edina has funded the city's first save station at Pamela Park as one of its signature projects for the year we know firsthand that aeds in public places save lives in emergencies and Pamela Park is highly visited by people from outside of our community and inside of our community where there's lots of activities taking place and we want to be a part of that solution for saving lives the AED was installed in March providing 247 access to anyone in need of life-saving assistance in the park remove clothes from patients chest when activated the device provides easy to understand step-by-step verbal instructions in English and Spanish to help both adults and children additionally it provides real-time reporting to edina's dispatch Center
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty one of the largest proposed redevelopments Ina in the past few years has cleared its first hurdle Enclave companies is proposing to redevelop the current Macy Southdale Furniture and Mattress Gallery at 7235 France Avenue the developer plans to tear down the existing store and build an 11-story mixed use building with offices senior condominiums retail and restaurant space and a parking garage on the Southwest parcel a seven-story mixed use building with offices Apartments retail space and a parking garage on the northwest parcel a seven-story apartment building with parking garage on the northeast parcel and a seven-story apartment building with r or restaurant space and a parking garage on the Southeast parcel the value of the buildings that will replace the current store is estimated to exceed $300 million we very much followed the greater saltdale District guidelines for this project which uh the intention of those guidelines is to break down these larger known as super blocks into smaller pedestrian friendly pedestrian first walkable blocks that's what we did here that really is at the heart of what happened so this is a mix use development that's centered around pedestrians pedestrians first for walkability and a a mix mix of uses the city council granted preliminary resoning and approved a preliminary site plan and plot last month council members requested several changes to the plan before developers bring the proposal back for final approval
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[Music] ever think about buying an electric vehicle the city of edina's energy and environment commission will host its first electric vehicle showcase 11:00 a.m. to 2 p.m Saturday October 5th in the Adina City Hall Parking Lot in addition to having a variety of electric vehicles on display the free event will include live music a food truck and participation from local dealerships and energy experts Edina residents and the community are invited to learn more about electric vehicle ownership from mother Ed Diner residents who own one the Showcase will exclusively feature BS or battery electric vehicles that are fully electric and have no gasoline engine featured Vehicles include Audi BMW Cadillac Chevy Ford Kia and rivan models plus a Tesla cyber truck I hope to see you there
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty one of the largest proposed redevelopments Ina in the past few years has cleared its first hurdle Enclave companies is proposing to redevelop the current Macy Southdale Furniture and Mattress Gallery at 7235 France Avenue the developer plans to tear down the existing store and build an 11-story mixed use building with offices senior condominiums retail and restaurant space and a parking garage on the Southwest parcel a seven-story mixed use building with offices Apartments retail space and a parking garage on the northwest parcel a seven-story apartment building with parking garage on the northeast parcel and a seven-story apartment building with r or restaurant space and a parking garage on the Southeast parcel the value of the buildings that will replace the current store is estimated to exceed $300 million we very much followed the greater saltdale District guidelines for this project which uh the intention of those guidelines is to break down these larger known as super blocks into smaller pedestrian friendly pedestrian first walkable blocks that's what we did here that really is at the heart of what happened so this is a mix use development that's centered around pedestrians pedestrians first for walkability and a a mix mix of uses the city council granted preliminary resoning and approved a preliminary site plan and plot last month council members requested several changes to the plan before developers bring the proposal back for final approval owners of the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the training center and break ground for a new building there later this year a new Tactical training building will be built on the south side of the property on Brar Boulevard with garage doors at each end the majority will be one level but the building will feature a mezzanine with multiple sets of stairs for training scenarios that include a second level three vehicles will be able to drive through and fit in the building at one time which will come in handy for training during winter months about half of the building will have movable panels that can be arranged to assimilate a house or commercial property areas where police have to go in and search for hostages drugs and other Contraband they will be able to manipulate those walls to assimilate an apartment or a second floor of a residence with the new Tactical training building they'll have the ability to create a space exactly that size or what they want uh officers that are going into apartment buildings uh private residences commercial buildings Office Buildings um they can create the exact type of scenario they're going to encounter out in the field this building will be used by the training facilities owner agencies Edina Bloomington Eden Prairie and the Metropolitan airports commission other local and federal a…
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[Music] the historic Wooddale Avenue Bridge over minihaha Creek will be replaced last month the council approved a memorandum of agreement with the US Army Corps of Engineers St Paul district and the Minnesota state historic preservation office regarding the bridge the bridge was built in 1937 as a product of Depression era Federal relief program it was designated a local Heritage landmark by the Edina Heritage preservation commission however the bridge is deteriorating the railings do not meet current safety standards and the narrow deck is inadequate to safely accommodate pedestrians and bicyclists if we had the rehab it you can see the bridge in the background it has a steel Arch that right at the water line it's starting the rust so to get access to that rusted portion of the steel you'd have to remove those uh failing railings remove the street and you'd go down to basically a half Tin Can Arch and then repair it and at that point the whole bridge is ripped up you might as well put back something that meets our transportation needs for wider sidewalks buffered bike lanes and just more space for people to to use the bridge from a transportation stand point the Army Corps of Engineers and the state historic preservation office have agreed the bridge can be replaced however the memorandum of agreement requires the city to document the bridge for historic purposes and and put up an informational sign near the bridge detailing its history
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[Music] the city has hired an architect for the expansion of rayar Arena last fall voters approved a local sales and use tax to fund the $45.2 million Rehabilitation and expansion of the facility the project has two primary components the first is to repair replace and update certain parts of the Aging complex the second is to add a fourth sheet of indoor ice optimize existing and new ice systems and add parking a new Lobby and related infrastructure to improve the safety and circulation of patrons and upgrade Ada components we're excited to make some improvements to the rink floors make them more even there's currently some heaving underneath the rink floors um we're looking at making some improvements to the HVAC systems which will substantially help with building cless and prevent dust better ventilation last month the city council approved a $ 2.62 million contract with JG Architects for architectural and Engineering Services for the project JLG will work with City staff and stakeholders the city's owners representative Tegra and eventual construction management firm they will work together to provide programming and preliminary design concept and schematic design design design development and construction documents and administration Services during our proposal request process we identified a number of great firms that we interviewed and JLG did stand out they're a leader in the state and the nation they have a dedicated sport Studio group that specializes in ice arenas and they recognize that this project will require uh the Excellence and great pride and tradition to improve Brar Arena both the renov and the expansion JLG is expected to Begin work this fall
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty mayor Jim huband and in cumbent Council Members Carolyn Jackson and James Pierce have been reelected to the din City Council in this year's general election hubin was challenged by former council member Ron Anderson according to un official election results huband won with nearly 55% of the vote receiving 16,8 187 votes to Anderson's 13,860 it's been my great pleasure to be the mayor of Adina now I'm in year 20 and has gone by so fast I just can't believe it uh but there were things that I still wanted to see completed we've got all these things all these projects going on in the Parks uh we've got about $72 Million worth of spending Authority from our tax spers to improve those Park systems uh we're in conversations with the county about a potential new art center at the new library the county is going to build at 70th in York uh we've got a new fire station coming online and there's just so many interesting things going on right now planning commissioner Ryan day also ran for a seat challenging incumbents Jackson and Pierce Jackson was the top vote getter with 16,552 votes while Pierce kept his seat on the city council with 13,784 votes today's 12594 voter turnout was 86% in Idina approximately 59% of that turn out voted early at City Hall or by mail and 41% voted in person on Election Day the reason why um folks are have decided to vote early it's really a speculation on my part um some of the things that I would think of is that every time I turned on the news the people were talking about voting early so it was a top of mind for everyone um it probably is a convenience thing rather than waiting for election day where um something may come up where that that one day they just can't make it to the polls um they decided to come out and vote at a convenient date um that works um for them um I believe the political parties were also pushing um early voting so those are probably some of the things that resulted in such a high turnout for early voting hubin Jackson and Pierce will take the oath of office for their four-year terms at the first city council meeting of the new year
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[Music] the Dina high school and middle school mountain bike teams participate and win at the state level but have not had a place to practice in the city for the past decade that will change this month eight miles of biking trails are set to open to the public on previously unused sections of Brar Park new hiking trails will also Wind Through the area Edina TV takes us on a ride to show us what we can expect not far from the meticulously maintained greens at the Brar Golf Course enthusiasts of a very different sport will find a more rugged landscape this is our largest park so it was a pretty good and easy location to start looking at Trail at 500 Acres Brar Park was the Natural Choice for new walking and mountain bike trails these new recreation options are part of the Brar Park project funded with the local option sales tax approved by voters in 2022 a project celebrated by the Adina high school and middle school mountain bike Team the fact of the matter is that here in the western suburbs there's kind of a desert of mountain bike trails Landscape Architects Incorporated input from the teams to make a course fun and accessible for all skill levels we've asked the city to uh create a system that has both challenging features uh but features that also can be ridden around or can be avoided by less experienced Riders but before any Trail work could begin a thorny obstacle had to be removed an invasive species called Buckthorn the material is okay to be left as long as it's not a heavy layer what wasn't burned was ground up it really went from solid wall of green to what you're seeing kind of today where it's um a lot of this had to be forestry mowed down um it was really the only established species in here Pathfinder Trail building did what they do best carving the trail design into the existing topography surrounding it all is 2 and 1 half miles of hiking trails we're working on just buttoning up things like signage um and some of Hazard removals and also some clay capping on the trails new park amenities in Edina nearly complete after a long climb giving residents and around 120 local students a home field advantage the community as a whole obviously is going to benefit but I'm here as a a representative of the team and the team is the team is really pleased on the Brar Trails I'm Dan Carpenter for ad TV to learn more about the new trails including the date of the ribbon cutting visit Edam mn.gov parks next your work on the trails will continue with the planting of native species efforts to control Buckhorn will continue for years years to come
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[Music] responsive to community feedback the city's tree protection ordinance has been updated the updated ordinance clarifies that it applies to Residential Properties zoned R1 and R2 and provides a definition of an unbuilt lot protected and Heritage trees may be removed without mitigation on unbuilt Lots within 10 ft of the proposed building pad deck or patio within 5 ft of a driveway or within 10 ft of infrastructure improvements including public streets storm water retention areas and utilities the updated ordinance allows Property Owners to meet their requirements for tree replacement by planting trees at a different site subject to approval by City staff the escrow or letter of credit length was reduced from 36 to 12 months with the changes made uh to the tree production Ordinance one of the best parts is that now certified arborists are required at uh the beginning of the project for certain projects and uh that helps coincide with our prior requirement uh to have them help with the building final at the end of the projects staff continues to work on other possible changes to the ordinance
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorthia Marty to help meet the city's housing and sustainability goals the city council has approved a new type of housing in Idina accessory dwelling units or adus are now allowed under city code an Adu is a self-contained residential unit with its own living room kitchen and bathroom on the same parcel of land as a single family house an Adu can be located within attached to or detached from the main house adus are known by many other names including accessory Apartments backyard Cottages coach houses granny Flats guest houses and in-law suites among others adus have been identified in some of the city's guiding documents as a potential tool to further housing and sustainability goals the Planning Commission studied the issue for more than a year before recommending an ordinance that would allow them any Dina in terms of benefits adus provide tremendous list of benefits some include the ability to have multi-generational housing the ability to age in place and even semi-independent living situations so for example if you have an aging parent or if you have a child with disabilities and AD is a great option for that as for next steps we're looking forward to the implementation of the ordinance and building guidelines so that residents could take full advantage of this opportunity Edina is now one of more than 25 Twin Cities metro area communities allowing adus including Bloomington Hopkins minetonka Richfield and St Louis Park did you know that 96% of all businesses in the city are classified as small businesses these local employers are not only important to the economy they also contribute to the well-being and vibrancy of the community the 50th in France Business and Professional Association is working to promote 150 of these businesses in ways that are fun for the whole family Edina TV shows us how and introduces us to its new director now therefore the city council of the city of ID is hereby proclaimed April 28th through May 4th 2024 as Small Business Week car celebrating a Local Economic Force small businesses they really are the lifeblood of our community accepted in part by the 50th in France Business and Professional association's new director there was a lot to do as soon as I got on um my feet and and started the position there perfect okay like making a visit to 50th in France more than a shopping trip but an event even the little ones will hop to like an Easter egg hunt held for the first time in March what families will do is they'll start discovering all that's at 50th in France so they're going to get to hop into different businesses the businesses will all have a treat for them a reason to break with routine and internet shopping to explore this business district the children that have the most checks on their postcard win a golden egg full of tickets to the din theater one of several events planned for the ye…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty a development team has secured approvals for a Redevelopment of the 9 Acre Site of the current Macy's Furniture and Mattress Gallery on France Avenue Enclave companies and lifestyle communities have secured approvals to subdivide the property in into three separate Lots with plans for four new buildings the existing Macy's store will be relocated and the existing building will be raised earlier this month the city council resed the property as a planned unit development and approved the final plot and site plan for the project one of the buildings will be an 11-story condominium building with office space and either a restaurant or retailer on the street level another will be a seven story mixed use building with Apartments the other two will be seven story apartment buildings one of those will also have space for a restaurant each building will include internal parking for residents employees and customers the street level parking stalls would be available to the general public the site plan is arranged with new roadways new sidewalks and new Landscaping areas that are available to the general public the existing 9 Creek bicycle trail will remain on the southern edge of the property good evening mayor members of the city council if I may I'll jump into this good to be with you again we were told we want the look and feel of the prominade to flow all the way up through the site so it feels like the prominade is actually being expanded into the property and we can see the swooping designs of the Landscaping Islands the large Landscaping Islands now they're bmed but the level of planting and the intensity and complexity of planting here mimics the schedule for the prominade so for the casual user walking in and out of the site the intent is for it to feel like an expansion of the prominade versus private property the development team is working to obtain financing for the project the city is taking new steps to protect its Rich history focusing on preserving the iconic Country Club district and other Heritage landmarks in a move to strengthen these efforts the city council recently approved several key measures including amending the city code related to the heritage preservation Commission in addition a new escrow policy for contractors working on homes in the country club District or other Heritage landmarks was introduced and finally the plan of treatment for the country club District was updated the ordinance provides Clarity for residents and builders on when a certificate of appropriateness is needed and when it's not needed and it also provides a tool for staff an enforcement tool to make sure that what's been approved by the heritage preservation commission is what's built the country club District was developed in the 1920s following models in Kansas City and several East Coast cities most homes were built …
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[Music] In an era of outright hostility to the LGBTQ plus community in many parts of the country, the EDINA Human Rights and Relations Commission will host Pride in Edina welcome. A conversation on making Edina welcoming for LGBTQ plus residents, workers, students, and visitors. The event will be held 700 p.m. Tuesday, October 22nd here in the council chambers of Edina City Hall. Presenting panelists are Senator Scott Dibble, who has served in the Minnesota State Senate for the past 22 years and is a statewide leader and advocate on LGBTQ plus issues. and Ellie Krug, author of Getting to Ellen and nationally known speaker on inclusiveness and transgender issues emphasizing acceptance of the humanity in all of us.
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[Music] the Dina Fallen to the Arts Festival is returning for its 20th year September 7th and 8th at Centennial Lakes Park approximately 240 artists food vendors and sponsors are participating in the festival art categories include two-dimensional sculpture wearable wood Pottery mixed media photography fine craft glass and jewelry it's just an amazing family centered event it's dog friendly so you can bring your kids bring your dog um check out our kids zone from 10: to 2 in the amphitheater both days there'll be lots of great activities put on by Park and wreck and then you know just the vast array of artists is amazing and really supporting their livelihoods and their work we're very passionate about that and there will be something for everyone proceeds from the fall into the Arts Festival benefit the Edina crime prevention fund which contributes to many police programs and services including the K9 unit motorcycle unit police explorers and night to unite the fund also offers reward money for information leading to arrests for serious crimes in addition the festival benefits Centennial Lakes Park the Edina Art Center and the Edina Chamber of Commerce this is the chamber's thirdd year organ organizing the event for more information on the festival visit Edina Fallen tothe arts.com
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[Music] the Edina police and fire departments have relaunched Smart 911 a service that has dual purposes notify the public of Public Safety incidents and better informed First Responders of a resident's health conditions and more smart 911 allows police sergeants Fire Chiefs 911 dispatchers and Communications Department staff to send alerts on Public Safety incidents throughout the city smart 911 also gives residents the opportunity to share information about themselves such as their health conditions pets and more so First Responders have that important information when they respond to an emergency the goal around the smart 911 is to try to inform the public as quickly and efficiently as possible about a significant event our officers and our sergeants have to try to maintain the scene they have to try to manage it manage the Personnel manage the situation so they're not going to be able to do it in a real-time setting so it's going to be within an hour and a half or two hours of an of a significant incident that will allow them to be able to communicate out via text email Facebook and Twitter uh what the situation was if you are interested in enrolling in public safety notification text updates text Edina alerts to 67283 once this step is complete you can either stay subscribed to the text messages only or you can finish creating your smart 911 account by clicking on the link in the follow-up text message to opt out of text notifications send the word stop to 67283 if you do not want to sign up for text alerts but want them in another way you can visit Edina mn.gov alerts to start creating your account and manage your notification preferences
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[Music] a small housing project is being considered on Vernon Avenue abundance properties is proposing to replace a single family home at 5516 Vernon Avenue with four town homes on the 1 acre site abundance properties presented a sketch plan last month to the dinast city council members gave non-binding feedback on the project the super exciting thing about about this project is one the size of the lot the location of the lot and uh really what we're planning to do with it our project adds density along a busy uh street so the families coming in uh are one building Community but also more likely to use that Transit uh which helps the environment overall to move forward the developer would need to request comprehensive plan Amendment resoning and site plan review
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[Music] voting is underway in a special election for henpen County Commissioner for district 6 the special election will fill a vacancy on the henpen County Board of Commissioners following a resignation of the district six seat last fall all six of the candidates are from Idina the large field means there will be a special primary election on April 30th to narrow it down to two candidates in the nonpartisan election candidates on the ballots are State Rep Heather Edon political consultant Patrick Gage Normandale Community College director of procurement Janet koule nonprofit leader Daniel morett businesswoman Marissa Simonetti and Hopkins school board member Jan West Morland the special election for the seat will be May 14th with early voting May 6th through 13th so the special election this time around it's the same as any other elections except that we have a compressed timeline um the April 30th um election for example there are only 13 days of absentee voting for the uh May 14th general election there are only six days of voting one thing that I would encourage voters to do is to drop off their ballot for those who are voting by mail so that there isn't a delay with their ballot arriving to the county late um and they can certainly drop it off here at City Hall the seven seat County Board oversees an annual budget of $2.7 billion hennipen county has nearly 10,000 employees and is the second largest government in Minnesota after the state the county is Minnesota's largest
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[Music] this year's Edina Heritage Award winner isn't a historic property it's a website congratulations thank house.com was recognized with the 2024 award the home history website was designed by Edina native Amanda zelki and her husband David Decker and was launched in 2022 the free platform allows anyone to discover and document the history of homes across the country well we're super grateful for the award it's just been an incredible opportunity to help preserve the history of all the homes right so the big idea behind our platform is to be able to answer what's the story with that house and capture the real moments that make a house a home so we just love the idea of everyone coming together and crowdsourcing home history it's the real magic when everyone is contributing that together the website has more than 24,000 us homes in its database including about 600 in Idina for the homes in Idina house novel sourced public data from the Minnesota Historical Society henpen County History Museum and Minneapolis Star Tribune the website is open for anyone to upload their own information on any home for free and with ease house novel offers a free history research guide but also has optional paid features if a homeowner wants help researching their property the commission presents the heritage award annually during preservation month to Showcase local historical preservation activity
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[Music] the city is seeking Federal funding for a study to improve atg grade railroad crossings in Edina a rail line owned by cpkc railroad runs through the city and while many Crossings are grade separated with streets going over or under the tracks seven still remain at street level with varying levels of safety measures to address this issue the city would like to complete a railroad crossing Safety Action Plan to see what can be done to improve the situation at each of the seven at grade Crossings until recently most trains passing through Edina operated during the daytime now the railroad has begun operating these trains at night which might be disturbing residents since the train horn rule requires Engineers to sound train horns at least 15 seconds before entering public grade Crossings eliminating Crossings or making grade separation improvements would remove the need for trains to sound their horns at Crossings where that cannot be done other safety improvements could be evaluated to make the crossing safer we have to first study if we can eliminate any of the crossings and if we can't then what can we do to mitigate the risks to mitigate the risks are pavement markings to show where cars are supposed to stop before they cross the tracks we can do flashing lights we can do Crossing signage or just overhead arms that stop traffic when a train comes through so those are really the first steps uh if we want to consider a quiet Zone on our seven Crossings within town the city has requested Federal funding of $200,000 for creation of the railroad crossing Safety Action Plan which is estimated to cost $250,000 some have asked if the city can establish quiet zones in the meantime the city does not have that Authority and the process to establish one can take years so if the city wants to establish a quiet Zone that has to be approved by the Federal Railroad Administration they have to look at the RIS the mitigation risk tactics that we want to do at each Crossing we would have to implement those mitigation risk uh improvements and then we would be able to implement that quiet Zone with them and through them that process is a multi-year Endeavor to get to a officially approved quiet Zone the city does not expect to hear back from the Federal Railroad Administration about the funding request until March 2025 if the grant is not awarded there will be no funding available for the study in 2025
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[Music] construction of a new Fire Station 2 officially kicked off with a recent groundbreaking ceremony this is another important Community investment that we're making as a city the city purchased 4401 West 76 Street to construct a new fire station which will also include space for the Department's Public Health division on the Northern third of the site the new fire station will replace the one on York Avenue which is too small to meet the community's needs the fire department has the divisions of the building inspection division Public Health division our fire operations which includes an ambulance service and the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility this station will house our Public Health division uh it's the first time the the needs of our community and the public will will be able to be addressed from the public health aspect with staff that they can see face to face right here out of Fire Station 2 1 2 3 the city council fire department staff department directors and members of the construction team ceremoniously threw dirt at the Soggy celebration to Mark the start of construction of the project which begins in Earnest this month we're super excited about uh this project with the city of Adina um it's going to have a great features for the community lots of community space uh lots of sustainability as well built into the project that's that's really going to be a great um asset for the community and and everybody in it construction is expected to be complete in late 2025 earlier this month the city council also approved the $71,000 purchase of 18 larger diameter trees for the site which is completely vacant trees vary in size from 4 and 3/4 in White Oak to an 8 in Regal Prince Oak dozens of smaller diameter trees shrubs and Native plantings are included under a separate contract
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[Music] the Adina human rights and relations commission will host its 13th annual days of remembrance event later this month this year's event titled genocide in Ukraine from Stalin to Hitler to Putin will take place in the council chambers of Ed City Hall 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday May 15th keynote speaker will be Ellen J Kennedy and din resident and founder and executive director of world without genocide a renowned human rights organization the event will delve into the harrowing realities faced by the Ukrainian people through history Kennedy will address the ongoing crisis in Ukraine along with the atrocities of Hitler that claimed nearly 1.6 million Jewish lives and Stalin's genocidal starvation that claimed nearly 4 million lives all in Ukraine well we're really honored to have Dr Kennedy who is uh the founder and executive director of world without genocide and she's a nationally and internationally recognized expert on the subject we're going to continue to honor uh every year the the memory of the millions of people who were uh killed during the Nazi era uh but Dr Kennedy is going to focus on a continuing genocide that's really happened since the Stalin era in Ukraine and it's a good reminder the genocide goes on today as it did uh back in the 30s and 40s for those who cannot attend in person the event will also be broadcast live on Edina TV and streamed live on Edina mn.gov meetings
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[Music] owners of the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the training center and break ground for a new building there later this year a new Tactical training building will be built on the south side of the property on Brar Boulevard with garage doors at each end the majority will be one level but the building will feature a mezzanine with multiple sets of stairs for training scenarios that include a second level three vehicles will be able to drive through and fit in the building at one time which will come in handy for training during winter months about half of the building will have movable panels that can be arranged to simulate a house or commercial property areas where police have to go in and search for hostages drugs and other Contraband they will be able to manipulate those walls to assimilate an apartment or a second floor of a residence with the new Tactical training building they'll have the ability to create a space exactly that size or what they want uh officers that are going into apartment buildings uh private residences commercial buildings Office Buildings um they can create the exact type of scenario they're going to encounter out in the field this building will be used by the training facilities owner agencies Edina Bloomington Eden Prairie and the Metropolitan airports commission other local and federal agencies will be able to rent the new facility for an hourly fee all types of training will be conducted in the building including building searches use of force techniques and traffic enforcement last month the din city council approved a conditional use permit with a height variance for the project
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the city is starting the new year with a Slimmer budget than originally planned the adopted budget is nearly 5% less than recommended by staff city manager Scott Neil developed the 2025 budget in response to feedback from residents prioritizing significant investments in public safety while still upholding high levels of city services across all departments the original proposal included a $ 61.5 million tax levy an increase of 13.14% from 2024 of that 5.46% was specifically earmarked to fund the expansion of Public Safety services including the opening of Fire Station 2 and adding new police and fire Personnel the rest of it was to cover city-wide operating costs fund projects and the capital Improvement plan support the street special Levy and update the city zoning ordinance council members were not comfortable with a double- digigit levy increase between the December 3rd public hearing and Levy adoption later in the month the finance department worked hard behind the scenes and offered some possible reductions use cash reserves for zoning ordinance updates instead of levying for the expense use cash reserves to pay for the design of a new cold storage building for Public Works use Public Safety Aid funding from the state to pay for some police equipment and funds from the equipment replacement Levy to pay for some garage safety improvements at Centennial Lakes defer improvements to the shelter at Lewis Park delay hiring new paramedic firefighters until January 20126 reduce the general fund by 1% the council accepted all of the suggested reductions and approved a budget of just over 47.3 million with an 8.44 per Levy increase Neil and his executive leadership team will work to reduce the general fund to get to the adopted 2025 budget council members also challenged staff and each other to Begin work now to reduce the 2026 budget projections my big concern to make a dent in the 2026 because we can't come back with another double digit increase so then it's all right we got to have the tough conversation and do the work starting now now to contract our expenses and it's hard work we got to make tough decisions but we have to do that with the community um we just we have to do that work and I think that will take us almost a full year to have those conversations so that when we come into August of 2025 we have a really good idea of how um we can um adjust our expenses and service levels and what have you to have a projected Target um that is more reasonable the council also approved the 2025 to 2030 Capital Improvement plan at its last meeting of 2024 another possible project for the former Kevin Keys Auto site on Vernon Avenue has died the owner of Station Pizza had proposed Remodeling and expanding the auto repair building at 6016 Vernon Avenue into a 20 seat restaurant with takeout and delivery service the proj…
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty affordable housing is being considered for development adjacent to the new Fire Station 2 the city bought an 8 acre property on West 76th Street to build the new fire station which will take up less than half the site one option the city is exploring is the development of housing to meet 's affordable housing goals so housing on this site uh would help the city uh with achieving its comprehensive plan goal of uh providing approximately 1,800 units uh of affordable housing by 2030 um and also uh helping the city with meeting its climate action plan goals uh reducing VMT and increasing public transit ridership by providing more housing near near Transit and jobs the Dina housing Foundation hired lhb architecture and engineering to create concepts for housing on the site the foundation and lhb presented three preliminary ideas to the city council at a work session earlier this month one option is five sets of 4unit twostory town homes another is a four-story apartment building with 45 to 50 units and three sets of 4unit two-story Town Homes the third option is most dense with both three and four-story apartment buildings on the site council members gave the foundation feedback on the proposals and asked for additional information to move forward with the project the foundation would need to request control of the site from the city the cost of the land if acquired by the foundation has not been determined
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty city manager Scott Neil is sharpening his pencil as he works with his team on the city's 2025 budget Neil has proposed a $26 million budget for 2025 it includes a proposed tax levy of 61.5 million which is up 13.14% the increase is largely driven by increased operating costs and an investment in public safety Rising costs in areas such as employee pay and benefits energy risk management technology equipment and vehicle costs are impacting all service areas the city's base budget is up 5.9% the city council made a commitment to invest in public safety by building a new Fire Station 2 scheduled to open in 2025 at that time six additional paramedic firefighters will be hired for the facility the city also anticipates hiring three additional police officers nearly 55% of the 13.14% levy increase is for this expansion of Public Safety Services another half% of the increase is due to a change in the city's special assessment policy for local Street reconstruction the budget also honors the city's commitment to maintain a high level of service in park maintenance Street repair snow plowing Environmental Protection Community engagement Fleet Maintenance assessing Communications street sweeping and more items in the budget and capital Improvement plan were also included to make the city more inclusive and accessible with things like automatic door EV charging stations for handicapped parking spots gender neutral bathrooms and Ada improvements it is going to be a very expensive year in 2025 however I think the tradeoff in terms of the investment back into the city the residents are very supportive in that knowing the fact that they're we're adding on additional staff to Public Safety efforts as well as offering getting a new fire station too and that was the direction that Council reive and therefore Council provided that to staff the city council approved a maximum tax levy at a meeting in September but members were not comfortable with the large increase and asked staff to find some ways to trim the budget without impacting service levels city manager Neil will continue to refine the budget a public hearing on it will be held 700 p.m. December 3rd
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[Music] Welcome to Agenda Edina, a program summarizing the actions taken at city hall that affect you most. I'm your host, Dorothia Marty. The city seeks a new developer to purchase and redevelop a vacant site in the heart of the Grand View District. Since the city's public works facility was relocated in 2010, a variety of concepts have been considered for the 3acre property on Eden Avenue. Most recently, a 2022 proposal to build senior cooperative housing, a sit-down restaurant, and a public green space was unable to secure financing and did not move forward. Earlier this month, the city issued a request for proposals or RFP to find a new developer or team to purchase and redevelop the property. The RFP was intentionally written to allow a wide variety of proposals that achieve the best project at the best land price to the city. Based on discussions by the Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the RFP prioritizes a mixeduse project with preference for owner occupied housing and missing middle type housing at a variety of price points that is not currently being constructed in Edina. We've looked at a lot of ideas on the site over time. Uh the city council is eager to take a new look this year to work with a new group of developers to see what makes sense in 2025. The city expects to select a developer and consider a binding contract in early summer. It is anticipated that the preferred developer would pursue zoning and preliminary site plan approvals through the city's standard processes later in the year. Construction could begin possibly as early as 2026. Trees in the Grand View District will be removed this month in anticipation of the Highway 100 interchange project. At a glance, the 27 millionoll project includes two new bridges on Vernon Avenue, one over the Canadian Pacific Railroad and the second over Minnesota Highway 100. The project also improves nearby intersections and eliminates redundant Highway 100 access ramps in favor of a standard tight diamond interchange, including the removal of the northbound on and off ramps at Graange Road. Noise walls will also be built. Trees along Minnesota Highway 100 near Edina City Hall, adjacent to the northbound on-ramp around both bridges and near CPKC railroad tracks must be removed for the project. The tree removal must be complete by the end of March before protected species begin nesting. We know residents are concerned about what trees. Uh we were very careful about what trees that were selected to be removed. We're not taking the large oak trees on Graange Road. We know those are very important to the people, residents. They're very important to us. They were protected with our project last year. They'll be protected again with the project this summer. Construction on the interchange project is expected to begin later this spring, possibly in late April. Brayar Arena is home to one of the most successful learn tokate USA programs in Minnesota with over 700 skaters enrolled in the program …
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[Music] welcome to agenda Edina a program summarizing the actions taken at City Hall that affect you most I'm your host dorothia Marty the Dina public works department recently wrapped up a service line inventory documenting materials used for water service lines throughout the city this project was part of a federal requirement under the US Environmental Protection agencies revised lead and copper rule the goal was to identify any lead or galvanized service lines requiring replacement to protect Public Health the revisions required water suppliers to complete an inventory and send it to the Minnesota Department of Health Edina submitted its findings in late August reporting no lead service lines two galvanized lines that require replacement 96 with unknown material and more than 13 ,000 non-led lines since August Public Works has finished evaluating the lines of unknown material so what we did was we started looking at all our all of our records that we had on hand and once we exhausted all those records then we started physically going out to houses and did what we call Hydro Excavating at the curb stop the curb stop is where the city ownership and the home ownership uh is separated which there we identify the material type even though the inventory is complete the city is requ required by federal law to notify Property Owners whose service lines were listed as unknown or galvanized requiring replacement in the August report those letters are expected to hit mailboxes within the next few weeks so we the city has uh two galvanized lines that need replacement on the homeowner side uh we made contact with those residents uh we have a contractor lined up already so as soon as we can just get the scheduling straightened out we're going to get those lines replaced at City cost for those those two residents learn more at Edam mn.gov servine inventory
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[Music] the human rights and relations commission recently honored a group of dedicated Educators at South viw Middle School the commission presented the 2024 Tom oi award to Edina unified and Educators Jenny schaer Rachel Cana and Whitney brocka Edina unified is a program that brings neurotypical students into special education classrooms to build meaningful authentic relationships between students the youth work shoulder-to-shoulder with their peers who have varying needs fostering understanding and inclusion the Educators grew the offerings from classes like physical education to special events like a dance for both special education students and their unified friends and other activities you know people have different struggles and it might be special education struggles mental health struggles like anything and it's made my my child and I think others who participated in the program more intuitive about how they regard their fellow humans so they might be a little more understanding of someone who has different social skills or different physical abilities um I also think that by being part of this program and having these real true friendships these kids are going to go forth in life and this is all because of what these leaders have really encouraged in them and look at where can they make space in their communities in their workplaces in their in everything they do for people of all abilities Commissioners presented the award at a city council meeting last month we can't think of a better organization that is impacting human rights and fostering a spirit of belonging in inclusivity in our city and touch hearts and Minds alike then Edina unified the award was established in 2006 in recognition of the late Tom oi who was an early member of the hrrc and served on it for more than 30 years oy was also a niss soldier in World War II a second generation Japanese American who served in the 100th infantry battalion of the 442nd regimental combat team in 20 2003 oi received the prize for Humanity by The Immortal chaplain Foundation
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[Music] another possible project for the former Kevin Key's Auto site on Vernon Avenue has died the owner of Station Pizza had proposed Remodeling and expanding the auto repair building at 6016 Vernon Avenue into a 20- seat restaurant with takeout and delivery service the project required a comprehensive plan Amendment resoning and a site plan with variances neighbors for and against the project spoke out some really liked the idea of having a small restaurant in their neighborhood for people to gather others felt there should be housing on the site as outlined in the city's comprehensive plan the project needed four votes from the five member city council to move forward it failed on a vote of 3 to2 first of all I ask myself the question does the proposed use have a potential benefit to the public say yeah it probably does uh but then I have to ask myself the question is there a potential adverse impact on the immediate neighborhood and if so does that potential adverse effect outweigh the potential benefit to the broader public there's only one way I can answer that question I say yes the potential adverse impact on the nearby neighborhood to me is more significant than the overall benefit to the public this was the third project proposed for the site to be turned down by the City previously a restaurant and a green drop donation site had been proposed
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[Music] the city of Edina and other owners of the South Metro Public Safety Training Facility recently celebrated the start of construction on a new Tactical training building a groundbreaking ceremony was held at the site on Brar Boulevard October 15th the new 6,524 Square ft L-shaped building will sit on the south side of the property with garage doors at each end for police training most of the building will be one level but a mezzanine with stairs will allow for Second Story training scenarios it's designed to fit three vehicles at once which will be especially helpful during winter training the facility will be used by the owner agencies Edina Bloomington Eden Prairie and the Metropolitan airports commission other local and federal agencies will be able to rent the new facility for an hourly fee training will include building searches use of force techniques and traffic enforcement no live ammunition will be used in the facility only simulated Firearms will be used there in addition to a bathroom and mechanical room the building will mostly offer open space for flexible training needs for law enforcement the building searches a lot of times you need larger rooms you need different doorway angles you need different entry points or exit points points and this building is going to be customizable to give allow us that opportunity to be able to set up different layouts to be able to um change to the different tactics that we need to train on the new building is expected to be complete sometime this winter
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Edina City Council Honors Late Hockey Coach Willert IolaEdina Council Reviews $4M Budget Reduction PlanEdina approves grants for French creperie, raises equity concernsEdina Council focuses on radon health risks in homesEdina celebrates transformation of industrial site into beloved parkEdina, Minetonka celebrate 30 years of girls hockey with sold-out gameEdina Council Weighs Major Mixed-Use Development at Former Macy's SiteEdina voters turn out in record numbers for city electionEdina prepares for November mayoral and council electionsEdina approves patio expansion for constrained Arrowhead Pass propertyEdina approves new accessory dwelling units ordinanceEdina City Council reflects on 136 years of history and growthEdina Council Rejects Townhouse Proposal, Approves New RestaurantsEdina honors Wooden Hill Brewing as 2024 Business of the YearEdina Opens 10 Miles of New Trails at Brar ParkEdina Council unanimously approves $545,000 budget cuts for 2025Edina Council Sets 2025 Priorities, Honors Public Works InnovationEdina Approves Rules for Up to Five Cannabis Retail StoresEdina honors police employees, prepares for county electionEdina to host genocide awareness event in MayEdina approves $30.7 million bond sale for infrastructureEdina Installs First Outdoor Defibrillator at Pamela ParkEdina Council Advances 13% Tax Levy Increase for Public SafetyEdina approves modest budget increase for housing and developmentEdina City Council rejects Station Pizza restaurant proposalEdina approves $310 million mixed-use development at 72nd and FranceEdina breaks ground on new police training facilityEdina Officials Highlight School Resource Officers' Role in Student SafetyEdina Council Approves Cannabis Rules, Bridge ReplacementEdina Honors Two Police Department Employees for Outstanding ServiceEdina approves major redevelopment of France Avenue Macy's siteEdina honors four decades of environmental health leadershipEdina Council unanimously approves $545,000 in budget cutsEdina approves major apartment complex on France AvenueEdina HRA approves modest 2025 budget increase unanimouslyEdina Planning Commission Split on Proposed Pizza RestaurantEdina approves major France Avenue redevelopment and heritage protectionsEdina Pushes Electric Vehicle Adoption to Meet Climate GoalsEdina finds no lead in water lines, will replace galvanized pipesEdina Approves $2.62 Million Contract for Rayar Arena OverhaulEdina Council Approves 2024 Election Results UnanimouslyEdina approves new police training facility on Brar BoulevardEdina Considers Affordable Housing on Fire Station PropertyEdina's Salt Storage Facility Helps City Manage Winter CostsEdina approves $850K loan for senior housing repairsEdina updates residents on major 50th Street safety projectCity Council discusses 20th annual Fall into the Arts FestivalEdina approves cannabis rules and $310M development projectEdina Council Converts Human Rights Commission to Task ForceEdina Heritage Award Goes to Home History WebsiteEdina pursues major development and infrastructure projectsEdina Council Delays Housing Decision, Approves Street ProjectsEdina Council Adopts Five State Legislative Priorities for 2025Housing Authority Delays 2025 Budget Decision to December 17Edina Council approves land purchase to preserve oak treesEdina shifts human rights commission to task force modelEdina approves $300M mixed-use development at former Macy's siteEdina seeks federal funds for railroad crossing safety studyEdina police and fire departments launch toy donation driveEdina Council eyes quick conversion of hotel to affordable apartmentsEdina updates tree protection rules for residential neighborhoodsEdina approves training facility expansion and major development plansEdina tackles water safety, rail noise, and police trainingEdina breaks ground on new fire station with integrated public health servicesEdina approves tactical training center with height varianceEdina approves grants for new French crepe shop on France AvenueEdina Police Department Unveils New K9 TeamEdina hires diversity manager to advance equity across cityEdina Council directs staff to draft cannabis retail rulesEdina approves plan to replace deteriorating historic bridgePlanning Commission delays decision on 153-unit France Avenue apartment project
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Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Rezoning for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue
Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard
Housing Diversity and Missing-Middle Housing Policy
Zoning Code Limitations and PUD Overuse
Kahill District Development and Small-Area Planning
Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) Ordinance
Lincoln and Londonderry Small-Area Plan
Southdale Office Center Project Status
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6-3 Approved (Roll call: Commissioner Elare - Yes; Commissioner Miranda - Yes; Commissioner Padia - No; Commissioner Smith - Yes; Commissioner Who - Yes; Commissioner Day - No; Commissioner Borstein - No; Commissioner Phelp - Yes; Commissioner Hanaman - Yes; Chair Bennett - Yes)
Approved Unanimously (Commissioner Smith abstained due to conflict of interest; remaining commissioners voted in favor)
Approved Unanimously
Approved Unanimously
“The people that we're talking to their housing needs have changed they're looking for greater convenience modestly less space... they look definitely looking for one level living and most importantly... the proximity to Community Services.”
— Steve Banky, Applicant [Timestamp: ~1:15:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“Affordability in Edina... if these two homes did not exist... they could be torn down and replaced with a home in... 1.2 1.5 1.8 million range. Compared to that $800,000 is Affordable in my eyes.”
— Steve Banky, Applicant [Timestamp: ~1:35:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“I feel like this project is taking away that ability for others too... I have concerns about the incremental unplanned for development that's continuing... what sort of dangerous precedent does this set.”
— Beth Johnson, Resident [Timestamp: ~1:50:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“When I moved into Edina I moved into basically a house very much like the two that are existing on this plot of land today... it was basically the price level that my wife and I could afford moving into the city for the first time... there's a lot of demand from the community for the housing stock that exists on this plot of land today.”
— Commissioner Day [Timestamp: ~2:15:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“I bought into Edina 14 years ago... but the economy has changed the world has changed... this house could go on the market tomorrow it could be torn down and put a $1.2 million home and there would be nothing that we could do to stop that but we have the opportunity to take these two homes... and turn them into these duplexes.”
— Commissioner Hanaman [Timestamp: ~2:25:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“I think the thing I struggled with more on this one is the request to rezone this to PUD... this doesn't really strike me as the type of... when I read through the criteria for what of the criteria for a PUD this doesn't seem to fit that to me.”
— Commissioner Bornstein [Timestamp: ~2:35:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“We have a housing problem in our city we have a housing problem in our region we have a housing problem in our country... if you keep that as single family homes... that's not affordable housing... we're growing and the region is growing and we have this huge need for housing... by not increasing the density you're making housing worse you're making Transportation worse you're making climate change worse.”
— Commissioner Miranda [Timestamp: ~2:50:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“I think in terms of design it might satisfy the missing middle but not in terms of price... the median home value in Edina in 2023... is 696,000... if you're coming in at close to $200,000 above that for a single unit I don't see that as satisfying the missing middle at all.”
— Commissioner Pia [Timestamp: ~3:05:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“It promotes diversity in our housing stock it increases the quantity in our housing stock with gentle density... it allows Aging in place... which is rare and important in our city... I think this fits that so I'm I want to support this.”
— Commissioner Felt [Timestamp: ~3:15:00]Comprehensive Plan Amendment, Rezoning, and Subdivision for 5120-5124 Hankerson Avenue (2-Unit Townhome Development)
“The main topic of conversation both at Planning Commission and city council was the parking in the front and could they do anything to bring the building up and not have that parking in front where patients would have to cross that in order to get to the building... they've adjusted they've moved the building up a little bit... have the parking along the side so customers patients can just access the sidewalk along the building.”
— Director Carrie Teague [Timestamp: ~3:40:00]Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard
“We ended up doing is moving the access way into the property... about 20 30 ft to the north so there's a little additional expense with that but we're staying true to our word... safety is really critical for us here.”
— Chris White House, Architect [Timestamp: ~3:50:00]Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard
“It's disappointing that we don't have a small area plan for Kahill because if we don't have a small area plan for Kahill nothing against this project but we it doesn't fit in with a small area plan we're not going to have a say in how this area develops... the more we fill up the horrible surface parking lots in Kahill with things that are not intentional I'm concerned that we'll wake up 20 years from now and it won't be what we wanted it to be today.”
— Commissioner Alar [Timestamp: ~4:05:00]Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard
“This shows though is how overparked our city is and how we don't have to have minimum parking requirement because business owners will build whatever parking they think their customer needs.”
— Commissioner Miranda [Timestamp: ~4:10:00]Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard
“I think you guys addressed that by shifting it more internally... and then that kind of pushed the building South a little bit more... I like that part... I was concerned with the height being 10 ft but then when you explain that the transparency section the waiting area you know was a lot bigger you bring a lot of light in that's very consistent with that General region with the 75% transparency requirement so I thought that was good.”
— Commissioner Smith [Timestamp: ~3:45:00]Site Plan Review, Variances, and Subdivision for Edina Endodontics at 7300 Metro Boulevard