Good evening and welcome to the Maple Plains City Council business meeting. It is Monday, February 23rd at 7 p.m. I'm calling the meeting to order. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. Pledge algiance 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. >> Looking for a motion to adopt this evening's agenda. >> So moved. >> Moved by Francis. >> Second. >> Second by Berock. Any further discussion? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I >> oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. Any visitors to be heard this evening? Right. Seeing none, uh we will move on to our consent agenda. Our consent agenda this evening includes um city council workshop meeting minutes from January 26, city council business meeting minutes from January 26, city council workshop meeting minutes from February 9th, public hearing for TIFF district meeting minutes from February 9th, and the city monument replacement. >> Oh, and the Madina water agreement. I'm sorry, >> mayor. I'd ask that the minutes A, B, and C be removed from the consent agenda. >> Okay. Items A, B, and C have been pulled from the consent agenda. Looking for a motion to approve items D, E, and F. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Bureick. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. Motion carries five to zero. Items A, B, and C have been pulled from the agenda. Um, council member Duca, did you want to speak to that? >> Yeah, I think I'm going to ask if we would consider taking the minutes and having them go back to staff. There are a number of errors that are too significant to probably just go through at this meeting. I think they need some revision. There are some places where they don't accurately reflect things. I've got an entire packet here of things. So, I I just wonder if it would be as easy to send these back to staff and bring the minutes back next month. Okay. >> Before they're officially adopted. >> I'm in agreement with that. Any other discussion? All right, we will do that then. Right, next item of business is accounts payable. Oh, administrator Shelinder, >> we should have a a motion to table them to the next meeting. >> Thank you. My mistake. Looking for a motion to table the minutes from January 26th and February 9th. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Berk. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. Thank you. Next item of business is accounts payable. And I will turn that over to staff. Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Our city bills uh for the month of February total $255,548.74. our AC bills, a total of $12,3546. We had uh um some 2025 payables for February of $14,190.72 and some 2020 for street reconstruction costs of $832. There were a couple um staff uh reimbursements um in the city bills that we will need to move over to um 2025 expense and I'll uh talk to our finance department about doing that to correct that. >> Thank you. Any questions for staff regarding accounts payable? >> Okay, hearing none. Looking for a motion to approve. I'll make that motion. >> Motion by berack. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. >> Next item of business is our staff reports this evening. Those have all been submitted in writing. Does anyone have any questions for staff regarding any of the reports? Looking for a motion to receive the staff reports as submitted. >> I'll make that motion. >> Motion by Francis. >> I'll second. >> Second by Bureick. Any further discussion or questions? >> Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Okay, the eyes have it five to zero. Next item of business this evening is our old business. We have none. So, we'll move on to new business and we'll start with our enterprise budget and I will turn that over to staff as well. Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Um, tonight we will review the um final draft of the 2026 enterprise fund budgets for the city. Um we will look at some key considerations in this budget process as well as summary of the water sewer and storm sewer funds. Um looking at the key considerations um the city does have three funds as I mentioned that operate as enterprise funds within the city. The final enterprise fund budget has a net revenue of $513,132 before factoring in depreciation expense. U we look at that as your operating costs as depreciation is a non-cash item. Um the city did complete a utility rate study in 2023. Uh we did look at those assumptions used in that study um and considered those as we were working on the budget as well. Looking at a summary of all three funds um as I mentioned that revenue over under expenses is a total of $513,132 for all three funds. Um all three funds for operations are um ending or projected to end 2026 at a net revenue before factoring in depreciation. After depreciation um the water and sewer funds still end with a net revenue with the storm sewer fund just under um break even. Looking at the water fund in more detail, this chart does show actuals for 2024 and 2025 and then the budget for 2025 along with the uh proposed budget for 2026. You'll notice that revenues we are um projecting to decrease for 2026 as we've reviewed um the utility rate study that was done in 2023 compared to actual um operating um revenues from the water fund. Uh we adjusted those through this budget process to align more with those actuals and what we're actually seeing. um water you know can fluctuate yeartoyear based on many factors including weather. So um some of the assumptions that we used in that rate study in 2023 have changed. Um no major other changes in the revenues. Um we are projecting a decrease in expenses as well. Um some of those changes in the expenses um we see an increase in administrative costs um that's due to auditing and accounting services and then software costs as well. The major decrease in this fund is in repairs and maintenance. Um that's just due to aligning equipment repair with some of the actuals that we've been seeing based on the equipment that the city holds. And I also want to point out that debt service um we include the interest costs for the debt that the city holds related to the water fund and that is slightly increasing as you know bonds change throughout their life. Next we'll look at the sewer fund. Um this fund similar to water we are also aligning that revenue with um actuals for the last several years. We did look at again that rate study and then adjusted based on the trends that we're seeing from the 2024 and 2025 actual revenues in the expenses area. We are seeing an increase in overall expenses here. Um the major increases include the administrative area. Um the major line items within that are auditing and accounting services and then consulting services. And again we have debt service within the sewer fund. So we're including those um debt service interest payments based on the bond schedules. Next, we'll look at the storm sewer fund. Um, we did also review the actual revenues for this fund and align them with and align the budget with the actual trends that we've been seeing. Um, not as big of a fluctuation within this fund. Um, so just an overall decrease in revenues for this fund of about 19,000. And overall expenses for this fund are fairly stable. We have just some shifts between categories. Um again the administrative costs and then um capital costs. We aren't projecting any capital needs in 2026 within the storm sewer fund. With that we'll take any questions. >> Any question? Any questions for Julie? Hearing none. I'm looking for a motion to approve the 2026 enterprise budget. >> Administrator Shelinder. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Um, one thing before we approve the budget um and then next is uh approving the fee schedule in the ordinance. Um that I wanted to point out. Um the when looking at the next item kind of going ahead looking at the next item in the packet um when you see the fixed rate for water within the city and outside of the city the percentage change there 18% increase is not the 8% increase that we were budgeting for the um in accordance with the water study and that is because we failed to change the rate um for the fixed rate um in our system. And when I say failed, I'm pretty sure we did change it because I sat with Sunny as we went through and changed all the rates. Um I'm going to blame it on Banyan. Um but as we were kind of going through this process of updating the the rates from the rate study in the new budget um we realized wait a second this is a much larger change than 8%. Um and that is why kind of going back and looking at it. So I just wanted to be forthright with the with the council and the public about that. >> Thank you. So with that, looking for a motion to approve the 2026 enterprise budget. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Berk. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. Same sign. >> The eyes have it. Five to zero. Next item for new business is ordinance number 2026-350 amending the quarterly utility billing section of the fee schedule. And also a motion to approve the summary of the public ordinance 2026 350. So I will turn that over to staff. Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. And I kind of already went ahead on this. Um, but I, you know, they tie together so well. Um, I already touched on this, so I'm willing to ask any questions that anybody might have on this, but this is the the new rates as proposed with the rate study. So, we'd be looking for a motion to approve this ordinance as well as a motion to approve the summary publication of the ordinance. Any questions for staff? All right, with that, looking for a motion to approve ordinance number 2026-350 amending the quarter quarterly utility billing section of the fee schedule. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Francis. >> I'll second. >> Second by. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. Next, we need a motion to approve the summary publication of ordinance 2026-350. For that motion. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Berack. Any further discussion or questions hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. >> The eyes have it. 5 to zero. Next item of business this evening is resolution 2026-20223-04 scheduling a public hearing on the issuance of the revenue obligations by the city of independence to finance a project by Northshore Gymnastics Association. and I'm going to turn that over to our administrator. >> Thank you, Madame Mayor, members of the council. Um, this resolution is setting a public hearing for March 16th at 5:30 p.m. Um, this is just really a formality. The city of Independence um is um issuing um a taxexempt revenue bond uh for Northshore Gymnastics. um they approached us to do that, but because we are issuing about $5 million in bonds this year for our street projects, we're kind of at our our cap. Um so we weren't able to do that and they are graciously willing to do that. So, as um the host city um it is our job to hold a public hearing um which will probably go very quick and then um we'll have we'll have met our obligations. >> All right. Thank you for that explanation. Any questions regarding that process? Okay. With that, looking for a motion to approve resolution 2026-02223-04, scheduling a public hearing on the issuance of a revenue obligations by the city of Independence to finance a project by the Northshore Gymnastics Association. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Berk. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. Next item of business before us this evening is the Northshore development. And I am going to turn that over to our city planner, Mr. Cus. >> Thank you, honorable mayor, councel. um excited to bring this uh proposal to you tonight for a downtown redevelopment project. Something we've been talking about many many years in Maple Plane. Uh tonight we have a request by um Maine and Maple or Maple and Maine LLC which is um uh company that was formed by Northshore Development for a proposed 95 unit multifamily uh building to be constructed on the properties that the city owns um on our downtown block of Maine and Maple. The um application tonight has one ordinance and four resolutions. I'm also kind of covering the financial piece that's being brought before you tonight um on behalf of Tammy Umall who we had scheduled this knowingly that she couldn't be here tonight. So if um there's questions specifically relating to the tax increment financing piece, I'm happy to to answer um all of those questions on her behalf. Um, but before I I go through the full detailed um requests that we have in front of us tonight and go through um I'll go through the plans uh that are being presented, I want to just kind of talk through a little bit of the history of how we kind of got to where we are and what the city's looked at historically on this particular piece of property. Um just to provide context and to provide the city with um just a um kind of looking back or a historical perspective for what we've gone through to try to get to the point we're at tonight. So the property itself that we're talking about is located on the south um side of state highway 12 be u just between Maple and uh Maine or Maple and Bud Streets. Um and it's primarily located along our main street. It was the former site of the city's city hall uh at one point West Tenipin public safety um as well as Olsen's uh market and gas station which had been uh on the corner of that property and the city uh acquired that um about 15 well 12 15 years ago. Now, uh, the property itself is zoned mixeduse downtown, uh, or MUD, and it's guided by our city's comprehensive plan for mixed use, and it's about 1.25 acres in overall area. Kevin, do you think I can take over? >> Absolutely. >> Do I have to hit a passcode? There it is. Is that 2965? Okay, perfect. See if this works. Hopeful. Share. Wow, look at that. Okay. >> Uh, make mine full screen. Yep. >> Better. Oh, don't do that. I want to click on this. Excuse me. This might be right there. It's right there. It's right there. Okay, perfect. Okay, so um I want to go back to kind of some of the original concepts that we talked about on this property. Uh starting with the Minnesota design design team concept that was uh prepared in the um early part of the 2000s. Um you can see that the u main the main road that runs um on the top of the page or to the page right in this case is highway 12 and then you can see County Road 19 or what turns into Bud Avenue that crosses Highway 12. You can see the bridge located about where our Hawk signal is located on this um plan. But then you can see the block that we're talking about shown. Um really the kind of primary piece in the center of the page. Um it's got a fountain. It's got kind of a public public piece to it and then it's got a couple of um multi-story uh what looked to be mixeduse buildings. This was really the initial design concept that the city had looked at for um that particular part of downtown as well as um kind of the downtown mixeduse piece in general. And again, these are just that was just a concept. From 2000 to 2015 or 201213, the city was actually in the process of trying to assemble properties in this particular location. Um, and the city went out and uh and was able to secure a uh local community uh development grant through the Met Council and actually obtained about uh $700,000 for the acquisition and purchase of properties to in the um in order to try to assemble the property including the acquisition and ultimately um kind of initial cleanup of the Olsen's Market property. Following that acquisition and kind of getting those pieces assembled, the city then started to market the redevelopment of these properties again. And so in 201516, the city actually engaged with a local um realer who was fairly well known regionally as a commercial de uh commercial broker. And we looked at the possibility of developing this site into more of a commercial uh development that would have a mix of retail um potentially some retail office, retail medical office. And we spent about two years trying to market this property and obtain commitments from uh people who would be able to afford the types of leases that new construction in this location would have garnered. In this particular case, at the end of this exercise, again, two years trying to go after a concept like the one in the picture, uh we ended up with just one commitment, which was from a regional um fitness facility that wanted some of the space, but not nearly all the space. So again, uh following that that activity, we pivoted a little bit and we started talking to some local developers about the possibility of redeveloping more of a mixeduse concept. Uh maybe looking at a little bit more density, looking at the idea of trying to have some retail on the first floor, mixeduse residential um type buildings. And we came up with some uh various concepts that started to evolve into things like uh city hall um entering the picture. Uh potentially trying to combine the city hall and the library uh to try to create a new uh civic space in the downtown and then maybe potentially redevelop the library site. We looked at a whole series of concepts involving multiple buildings, singular buildings, uh, three-story buildings, four-story buildings, five-story buildings, some with mixed use, some uh on the or retail on the first floor, some without. We landed in 2018 with a purchase agreement again on this property from a local developer looking to develop a a mixeduse combination including residential, retail, office, city hall and library that uh we spent two years on that particular uh purchase agreement. We then pivoted again to another group that uh came in and showed interest. Their interest primarily uh lied in mixed use I mean I'm sorry multif family residential uh multi-story multifamily residential. We looked at the possibility of trying to carve out a retail site that was kind of separate or distinguished from the multi-story multi-unit residential. We talked about things like as everybody knows a coffee maybe on that corner. Uh we went through quite a process um with that from 2020 to about 2022. um where that particular purchase agreement um was not extended and we entered into a new purchase agreement with another group looking at a similar redevelopment effort. In this uh redevelopment effort, they looked primarily at multifamily. Uh we did talk about incorporating a civic use into this building andor trying to carve out a site again for some sort of a retail corner component. really we kept hearing as we were going through this process how difficult retail would be on this particular site um given the high costs of including retail um due to the the new construction costs for leasing and what the market really was ready to bear in uh Maple Plane. And so we went through again a whole new series of concepts and um when we got to the to the end of that we had gone through two more purchase agreements um on that property that kind of got us through uh 2025. And so with that, um, it kind of it kind of led us up to, uh, a point where we are today where we've got, um, a new group that's been working on this site for the past year, uh, trying to put together a project that they think can make sense both from their perspective and, uh, from the city's perspective and one that is financially feasible. So, with that, um, I'll go through and present to you the, uh, concept that we're looking at tonight, which is, um, another mix, um, I'm sorry, multifamily, multi-story building that would, uh, look at assembling the five properties under city's control on the subject property and turning those into a 95 unit multifamily market rate residential apartment building. In addition to working with the developer, the city has also been in the process coordinating um several aspects of the redevelopment of this site, including uh kicking off a feasibility study and doing now moving towards plans and specifications for the city to redevelop Main Street East, Maple, and then a whole series of streets in the downtown that um are all part of this downtown district. We're talking about also in that design effort looking at regional storm water management that would service this property as well as bearing overhead utilities and then improving and constructing street and sidewalk uh um public space um that includes landscaping and lighting uh as well as constructing on street parking spaces. all of which would be coordinated with the proposed redevelopment and ultimately uh be a part of the um kind of total or whole redevelopment effort. So with that um the applicants uh proposal is for the 95 unit uh concept. I'm going to walk through just the site plan of what that looks like. Uh so on the screen you can see Maine and Maple. Uh Maple uh Main Street is on the the bottom part of your screen, Maple on the left. They're talking about um developing an L-shaped building that would have um two stories of uh garage or interior parking. One of those garage stories would be an underground, so it' be buried below grade. Access to that would be um via a ramp that's located in this location on the screen right there. So, you'd come into the parking lot um and then you would ramp down to go underneath the building to access that level of parking. And then they'd have a second level of parking which would actually be on the main street portion of or that first floor above grade portion of the building. There would be an access point in the lower left hand coming off of Maple Avenue. There would be a surface parking lot that would serve the development in this location. um behind the building. Let's see if that recovers. And there would be a access to Main Street from um the what would be the south and east corner of the site. See, it's I think I think it's going to come back. There it goes. Um along with the improvements that are being proposed, we'd be talking about uh changing the main street cross section essentially so that instead of having parallel parking on both sides, we'd have parallel parking on the south side and we'd have diagonal parking up against this new building on the north side of Main Street. And then similarly on Maple, we would have parallel parking on the west side and diagonal parking on the east side. All of which would provide a net gain in parking spaces for public parking. Um, I'm estimating that to be seven because our streets aren't exactly striped. Um, and because there's some existing access points that are going to get closed off, I I think that's a reasonable estimate of what's going to be increased with the proposed parking in the after condition. Then you can also see from this plan that we're proposing a um redevelopment of a new city sidewalk that would include street trees in tree grates. It would include some foundation planting. It would include some um pa or pavement delineation along the um streetscape frontages of those buildings. And then it would continue to carry out the city's kind of now established streetscape that's currently uh been deployed along the post office and McGarry's um just on the other side of the block from this building. And so it would really start to create that main street um uh um streetcape that would um start to tie this into um the other part of downtown. With that, uh, the applicant has provided the city with a series of elevations. The the main entrance to this building would actually be located on the corner, uh, which is the norththeast corner of this building. So, you drive into the parking lot and then there would be a main loca uh, main front entrance that would be located on the interior part of the parking lot. That that entryway though would have a lobby that kind of walks all the way through to Main Street. And that would be um inclusive of these windows, kind of tall windows, a lot of glazing and a lot of light that would kind of highlight that portion of the building as the main uh entryway coming into the building. The applicants provided um elevations and the city's been working with the applicant. One of the challenges on this site is we were trying to get enough parking. Um, but in order to do that, we had to you utilize firstf flooror parking because of a couple of factors, soils, groundwater, um, and just cost to to go down multiple stories. And so, one of the things we've worked with the applicant quite a bit on is trying to create still some main street frontage elements. So, openings or glazings or even just differentiation in the in the building facade at that first floor level in an attempt to try to mimic or um at least create a feel or an aesthetic of a um street front kind of building elevation that's kind of at a pedestrian scale. You can see all elevations that the the applicants uh provided kind of relating to how that might go into effect. One of the other aspects of that is in working with the uh developer on that, they've uh come up with a concept where um they'd like to incorporate into that first floor level that that fronts Main Street and Maple some historic elements as a way to try to bring um some differentiation as well as some kind of pedestrian scale identity to the project. And so they're looking at they've been working actually with our um museum folks on trying to create some historic images that could be incorporated into some kind of backlit uh concepts that would both be internal in the lobby as well as um potentially located along the main and maple frontages. And so, um, with that, um, the applicant's hoping, uh, to try to create that pedestrian scale on the main and main street and Maple frontages, um, that would at least provide some character and some, um, kind of pedestrian scale elements to that first floor of the building. With that said, the applicant provided us with a unit mix um 95 units, 27 studios, 47 onebedrooms, 21 two-bedroom uh units that would um be proposed to be developed. Uh they're hoping that those um units meet the market demands that were kind of highlighted in the uh market study that the applicant had put forward. In addition to the units, the applicants per um shown that they're proposing a fourth floor sky lounge with grill stations and some outdoor seating, which would be a rooftop deck that would overlook Main Street, McGarry's downtown, the library. They're also um going to integrate a club room with coffee bar and then a fitness and wellness center. Uh and then on the outside of the building, they'd have an outdoor recreation space, a pet spa, and a dog run uh that would service their residents. There would be, as I noted, two floors of enclosed garage parking, secure bike storage, a package room, and then um elevators, and then they've talked about their high-speed internet that would be deployed throughout the building. So, with that, uh the city reviewed the set of plans that was prepared by the act, the applicant. We went through a full detailed site plan review. Um, and what we had determined early on in this process is that any building that would be developed in this location, um, just given that this 1.25 25 acre site is probably the biggest assembled property that we have in the mixeduse downtown area. Um that it should really be done under a planned unit development so that we can provide the flexibility needed to make this project work while still capturing um the majority of elements that are included in our our base zoning, the mixeduse downtown zoning district. And so within the PUD, the applicants noted their request for height setbacks um and density. Um that are all elements that um require in this case I think unique solutions in order to be able to accommodate the proposed development um and make this project work and fit within um kind of the guidance that we have in the comprehensive plan as well as in our downtown design guidelines. things that we already know about setbacks. We already know the city has a 50-foot setback from Highway 12. We know we can't accomplish that in many locations throughout the city. We've granted relief to that particular setback. We've talked about the height on this particular building. Um that in order to make the parking work and really maintain public parking in this particular case, we need to consider the um the additional story uh that has been proposed. And then as it relates to the density and the comprehensive plan, um we've uh projected in our downtown mixed use a series of or or a kind of assemblage of acreage um that when all built out will have a uh density range that is between 20 and 40 units per acre. and that even though this building exceeds that top end, the overall mixeduse downtown district will be well within our 20 to 40 unit per acre parameters. Um, and even within that within our comp plan, we've noted that um percentages of buildings are going to be potentially mixed use, some are going to be all residential, some are going to be all commercial. And so we're going to have to utilize a blend in order to achieve that overall um density that's being projected. The other big piece that we look at with the downtown redevelopment or in in really in any new development that's coming in is we we really spend a lot of time thinking about parking. In this particular case, um again, we're we've got two stories of parking. Um, and because of the two stories of parking, um, and then the lot that is behind the building, which would be the private parking lot, the developer was able to, uh, get to a a parking ratio of 1.6 parking spaces per unit. Um, our ordinance requires one parking space per unit in our downtown mixed use. In all other areas of the city, we require two parking spaces uh, per unit. But, um, we looked at and compared other, um, uh, parking standards for downtown buildings that are kind of more an urbanized setting. And we believe that, um, with the 1.6, we fall right in line with what we think is the kind of national, local, regional averages. And the developers had had quite a few projects as well. Um, I think anything that hits that 1.5 for a kind of edge community like this starts to get right where we need to be. Um, and so I think at 1.6 we're in a a pretty good place on this particular uh project. Noting that we have no other comparable anywhere near us really to kind of look at or think about. The one thing I will note, the on street parking spaces that we're going to uh recreate are available for public parking. Guest parking could certainly park there. Um but they wouldn't be designated for the building user. They'd be designated and maintained by the city as public open parking spaces. So just to kind of point that out. So, uh, wi with all of that said, um, the city has a couple of things to consider as it relates to the to the plans tonight. Uh, we have a site plan review that we've gone through and planning commissions uh, reviewed made a recommendation to the city council which was a positive recommendation to approve site plan. We also had in the packet noted preliminary and final plat. I'm going to uh make one change tonight, which is we are going to remove final plat from our list of approvals. Um we had talked about this prior to putting this into the packet. We thought we might get to a final plat that we're all comfortable with. We're not there yet. There's nothing wrong with it. There's no issues. We're just trying to get the lines right. Um because in the city uh owning this property, we have the luxury uh and benefit of kind of dictating where we want the property lines. And so we've been working with our engineering group, their engineering group, and we're really trying to make sure we city have what we want before we plat it. And so we've been kind of going back and forth on what that looks like. I think we're all in a well, I know we're all in agreement. It's just now a matter of getting that final draft out and making sure it's all good. What I anticipate is that final plat will come back with the development agreement and with the planned unit development agreement, which you'll see here um four weeks from now. So we'll bring that back. So, that would be the only thing that I'm taking out of tonight's consideration is that final plat. So, we'd be looking at uh site plan approval, preliminary plat reszoning this property to planned unit development mixed use. Um, and that's done via the ordinance that's presented in front of you uh as well tonight. So, all that said, that's the planning piece in a nutshell. I don't know how much you want or need to talk about the tax increment financing. I'm happy to talk about any of that, but with that, I'll I'll just kind of yield now and see where you guys are at. So, >> all right. Thank you. Thank you for that summary and the history and for all of the information. Um, questions for um Mr. Cultus. >> Sorry, Councilio. >> Sorry. Yes. Uh, thank you for your presentation. Um, I might have missed it, but did you talk about the closing off of Bud Avenue on that? Was that part of this plan? >> So, good question. I did not talk about that. So, I I'm kind of leaving Bud Avenue and the closing of that to the city's downtown project more so than it is associated with this particular redevelopment. Um, because it's really not a developer request. It's not a proposal that they made. It's really a city kind of led piece. Um, but as you know, we've talked about that we would be closing butt off. That really has no impact on what's being proposed by the developer as far as their access um kind of any of their connectivity or um any anything that would that would be changed as a result of the city deciding to close BUD. So, sorry I >> any other questions or clarifications? All right, we have some work to do. Um, first before us is ordinance number 2026-349 amending article 4 of the city code by adding planned unit specific zoning to section 10-543. Looking for a motion. >> Make that motion. >> Moved by Berack. Second. Second by Francis. Any further discussion or questions regarding this ordinance? >> I don't have no further questions or comments, but is there a possibility we can switch to screens back? >> Oh, sure. >> So, that can do anything, Kevin, or can you just take it? >> Just stop sharing. >> Okay. that >> for people >> discussion or questions related to this ordinance. We have a motion and a second on the table >> hearing none. All in favor please signify by saying I. >> I >> oppose. Same sign. Motion carries 5 to zero. Next item before us this evening is resolution 2026-0223-01 approving the development program for the development district number two and the tax increment financing plan for the tax increment increment financing redevelopment district number 21-1 looking for a motion >> so moved >> moved by Duca >> second >> second by Berk. Any further discussion or questions related to this resolution? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. The resolution passes 5 to zero. Next item before us is another resolution. This one is resolution 2026-223-02 authorizing interfund loan for advance of certain costs in the connection with the proposed tax increment financing district. Looking for a motion. >> I'll make that motion. Looking for a move by Francis. >> Second. >> Second by Duca. Any discussion or questions related to this hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. The eyes have it. Five to zero. The next item before us this evening is resolution 20226-223-3 contract for private redevelopment with Northshore Development LLC. Looking for a motion. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Berk. >> Second. Second by Duca. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. 5 to zero. Next, we need a motion to approve resolution 2026- 0223-03 approving the issuance of terms and tiff registration provisions. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Francis. Any further discussion or questions? Hearing none. All in favor, please say I. >> I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Eyes have it. 5 to zero. Next item before us is resolution 20. Whoops. We do that one. Excuse me. Next item. Oh, >> mayor, a point of clarification. Do we need a motion to approve the contract for private redevelopment >> as part of this too? >> That's the next isn't that letter E, the one I'm doing next. >> Yes. >> Is that that? >> Yes. >> And make sure we didn't miss that one. >> We missed the number two wasn't on the agenda that we just did. So that's why Okay, we're all a little bit off. >> That's why I was clarifying to make sure it was going in the right order. >> Thank you, Council Member Duca. Um, next item is resolution 2026-223-03, contract for private redevelopment with Northshore Development LLC. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Berak. >> Second. >> Second by Francis. Any further discussion or questions? I I just want to be very clear. We've already approved an 03 a little bit ago. It my understanding is we needed a motion to approve the contract and the the resolution. Am I correct? >> Give me one second here. >> Looking at page 166 of the packet. No resolution. I think there's two motions, >> correct? A motion to approve the contract for private redevelopment >> resolution >> and then a motion to approve the resolution approving the issuance of terms and tiff registration >> and we did the resolution. We haven't done the motion. >> Correct. >> We >> the motion >> the motion first. >> Y >> we did the motion >> approve the contract. >> I think you did. I thought you did the resolution. I did number one and then I did number two which is not on our agenda and that is what is causing the confusion. >> I think so I did number one which is letter E I mean letter D. Oh goodness. Oh I'm confused. One was C is D. We just need >> which is the one I just asked for a motion and a second and we had correct. >> Okay. >> Yes. So with that, we have a motion and a second for resolution 2026-223-03, which is the contract for the private redevelopment with Northshore Redevelopment Development LLC. Any further discussion or questions on that hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Okay. The eyes have it. Five to zero. Next is resolution 2026-0223-05 is approval of the PUD site plan preliminary plat for Northshore development. >> Uh madame mayor, members of the council, Scott Lansman, city attorney. Um the resolution uh starting on page 202 includes the final plat approval and as uh city planner cultist mentioned um that's is being removed from this approval. So I have a modified motion which would be on page 201 if um which should be a motion to approve resolution 2026-223 5 approval of a PUD site plan preliminary plat or and preliminary plat for northshore development with the removal of the final plat approval subject to the final review and approval of the city attorney and the city planner. By doing that will allow us to make the approval tonight and then I will go tomorrow I will remove um any any approval language for the final plat the final version. So if you would like I can read it one more time in the record or works. >> Yeah, that makes sense and is much more clear than what I just read by omitting the and then gives direction to staff so we don't have to have another meeting. >> All right, for clarification I am going to ask you to read that one more time. Okay, and then look for someone to that. Proposed motion the city council is a motion to approve resolution 2026.0223.05 05 approval of PUD site plan and preliminary plat for Northshore development with the removal of the final plat approval subject to the final review and approval of the city attorney and the city planner. >> So moved. >> Moved by Duca. >> Second. >> Second by Francis. Any further discussion or questions regarding that resolution hearing? None. All in favor, please signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries five to zero. Thank you all for your patience and help in working through that. That was a lot of information regarding the Northshore development, which is very exciting. So, um, I need to apologize. We do need to go back to item um C under new business and we need to do a roll call vote. That cannot be um if we look on page 137, we'll see that that should be a roll call vote. So, we're going to have to amend the minutes and do this properly. So with that, it is resolution 20226-0223-04 scheduling a public hearing on the issuance of revenue obligations by the city of independence to finance a project by Northshore Gymnastics Association. And for a motion, >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second that motion. >> Madame Mayor, if I may. Sorry. Um, need to get to this here. Let's see. >> So, we'll we'll need um council member Bureock to amend his motion or to resend the motion. >> Oh, because >> and then we'll remake the motion. I will resend my motion for resolution 2026- 0223-04. >> So now that it's been rescended >> second for the rescending >> second anyone rescended by Berak moved and seconded by Francis. Any further discussion or questions? Hear none. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I >> oppose. Same sign. >> All right. The eyes have five to zero. Ask for extension. Now, do I need to do that again or can we use some moved in second? >> Make a motion. >> All right. We'll do it again. All right. Looking for a motion to approve resolution 2026-0223-04 scheduling a public hearing on the issuance of revenue obligations by the city of Independence to finance a project by the Northshore Gymnastics Association. >> I'll make that motion. >> I'll second it. >> Moved by Francis, second by a roll. Any further discussion or questions? just uh for my edification. Why does it need to be roll call? >> Because that's how it's written in um our packets. >> Okay. >> If there's a reason why >> I just was just for my education. >> That's why it was given to us. So, >> uh council member Arzo. Uh, yes. Present. What? What do we say? You're voting. >> Are you voting? Yay or nay? >> Oh, yes. Sorry. >> Council member Duca. >> I. >> Mayor Mascowski. >> I. >> Council member Francis. >> I. >> Council member Berak. >> Hi. >> Five. Zero. Nas. >> All right. Thank you for your patience in that process. All right. With that, uh, we will move on this evening to council reports and other business. Um, do you want to kick us off, council member? >> Um, sure. Um, totally space this part out tonight. Really should have probably stayed in Florida. I apologize. Um, I because I my one position that I have was wershed and since I was absent for wershed this week, I have nothing to really report on. But um happy February 23rd. I really have nothing to say so I have no reports so I will move on. >> Thank you council member Duca. >> Yeah Mark I wanted to just make a special thanks to you. We have been working on the downtown development ever since I got on council almost 15 years ago. I think this is getting real. So thank you. um a month, a short month, but a month with some workshops and looking forward to the work we're doing with uh our downtown development. >> Thank you, Council Member Duca. Member Francis, >> uh my month has been a learning month. Uh I'm the liazison for planning commission. So everything we discussed, this was my second time hearing it and learn something new each time I hear it and read about it. And I'm very excited for this development to being closer to reality. And you know, our planning commission, they worked really hard on this, had great feedback, uh, you know, just It's been a pleasure working with them on this whole process. They're a dedicated group. Um, so between the planning and the tiff hearing, couple workshops, we had a rebranding meeting and February is a short month. So that's it. Thank you, Council Member Francis. Council member Bureick. >> Well, and Mike said it very well. This is getting real. um with that TIFF meeting this month, the this meeting now this is moving forward and it's a project I'm glad to see moving forward. Um I did attend Watershed this month and it was kind of nice going back to it. Um I'm going to just keep hitting the same topic that our visa likes to talk about about the salt. Just always keep in mind the salt we put down because it contaminates our salt or waterways and it's very very costly and not practical to be able to remove salt once it gets in there. So I just say salt what you need to but only salt what you have to. Um and then I think I'm just going to leave it at that. >> All right. Thank you. um the end of the month since we last met, council member Duke and I were at police commission. We spent um that meeting looking at 2025 and review and really looking ahead to 26. Have been busy with Rotary um different service projects, speakers um as well. Uh was able to attend the first West Suburban Fire District quarterly meeting as one of their new clients, the new client for 2026. So um thrilled to report that that is going well. um they really did a high overview of 2025 in review and then just talked about the consolidation and that transition and again I'm grateful that that is going well and looking forward to a continued partnership uh with West Suburban Fire District attended the LMC 4M fund. We had an overview of the fund, a fidiciary review, a market update. Very exciting stuff, especially if you love numbers. So, but we are grateful for the forum fund and for the money that the city has invested in there and the interest that we've earned. So, um attended the Polar Plunge to cheer on our own team, the Cool Whips, um from West Henipin Public Safety and also our friends from the city of Orno. Um great event and all the money raised goes to the Special Olympics. uh had a Minnesota Mayor's Association meeting. We're planning our spring meetup and just talking about challenges we're facing um as an organization and really trying to be a resource um for mayors and um out there and everything going on. attended the experienced officials um training conference which was a great opportunity of networking and learning and I believe council member Bureick was there. Council member Francis and I think council member Vizo you were at the newly electeds during that so that was a great learning opportunity that the league put on. Uh regional council mayors was interesting. Doug Bloom, president of the Minnesota Chamber spoke about our economic growth. Um and Peter Froch, president of Greater MSP, talked about um building our economy. Rebranding committee has been busy. Uh signage at the parks has finally been finalized and ordered and working on communications. We're all at the TIFF hearing. Chamber of Commerce, our speaker came in and talked about um artificial intelligence and how it affects all of us and our roles um in as municipalities and especially as police departments. Northwest Henipin and Lee municipalities. We updated everyone on the year budgets, how things ended, attended the LMC board of directors meeting and really looked at the league, uh, the wide work plan, um, member trends, federal update, legislative updates, very informative meeting. The Orno coalition attended that meeting and our speakers were about mental health resources and connectedness and our roles that we play in that um, as cities and our schools as well. last Monday was able to host muffins with the mayor at Haven Homes. That's always a highlight. Um their questions were delightful and they are so excited about Quick Trip and they just love the city. So that was a wonderful encouraging time. Tonight we had chat with the mayor. Thankful to our residents who are engaged and came to that. Always good questions and conversations. or a healthy youth uh worked on community resources and just as a reminder we are fortunate to have we can represents the entire city of Maple Plane. So it's a wonderful resource for all of us. Lots of phone calls, emails, meetings with business owners and residents, meeting with Jacob. Um also met with representatives from Henipin County, really hoping to partner with them on the library and just continuing to advocate for that. March 5th, our Highway 12 safety coalition meeting will be at 3 PM at Delo. Make sure to attend that if you can. We're continuing our advocacy group is working on that. We did get on the bonding bus tour session um is in session now, as you know. We're really hoping that we get some funding for that. So, fingers crossed. Um Commissioner Anderson is hosting a town hall at the Maple Plane Library on March 7th from 11:30 to 12:30 and I will be one of his panelists. So, if you're looking for something exciting to do on March 7th, come to the library. So, lots going on in a short month for all of us and grateful for everyone and the roles and the parts that you play in that and um for all of our staff, those here tonight and those not. Um grateful for everything you do to keep us all organized and on track. Any other business to come before us this evening? Right. Hearing none. Looking for a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make that motion. >> Moved by Francis. >> I'll second that motion. >> Second by. All in favor of adjourning. I I post same sign. Meetings adjourned at 8:05.