Generally, in their circumstance, it's odd because we use two different standards. For the setback, we're looking at whichever setback is greater. For the square footage, we're looking at whichever number is smaller.

We've been on a mission to do this for over a decade now. We love telling guests about the history of Minnetonka Mills... The relatively new ADU concept would also fulfill this dream.

Carriage house designs are a great way to utilize the volume of attic above a sloped roof garage instead of leaving it as lost enclosed attic space. This allows the structure to maintain a minimal bulk appearance compared to a true two-story design.

I wish there were a way we could fit this in to city code and make it compliant. But I I just can't see the way. It's too big for what the city council has approved as their ordinance.

I look at this and I have to say to have an existing uh property line setback at 7 1/2 ft, um I'm going to make the assumption that this home was built and then lot lines were probably set in day two. Um so to improve that to 15 ft or 17 1/2 ft, I think is a win.

our code, like we've talked a lot here today already, our code measures height very uniquely. We measure it to the midpoint of the pitched area.

The water tower that we are looking at over here, Um this would be 125 ft from the bottom to the top, but it's even higher than that. Um the this water tower is built up about 25 ft higher than the grade of the field. So, if you're comparing this the height of these two, this is if we're talking about zero is the field, this top of the structure of the water tower is 150 ft about a little bit more. Um this one's about 60 This second 67, so the water tower is twice the height

What you're seeing this evening before you is our first project to come forward uh following our voter-approved referendum this past November. Um and this is part of that visioning projects around that we were looking to do uh improvements and betterment of all of our schools and facilities across the entire school district.

We do offer a translucent product, but in this case, uh we also have an opaque product, uh meaning that there is zero uh light transmission through the membrane itself. Um and so in this case uh it is seasonal, it would be opaque uh and so there would be no light transmission outside of the dome.

I think my hope was at the time when I voted for it that the school district would take a bigger plan and think bigger and not just not not for that site particularly, but across it's all of its property and all of its needs.

I absolutely agree. Um we live in Minnesota and if we can make better use of our school grounds, we can give uh school-age children and and and a number of people more opportunities to get out and exercise and to uh just basically have some fun, some good clean fun in the winter months.

The point of this sort of exercise, I suppose, is to discuss the concept plan and give the applicant feedback on this idea. I suppose the best way to describe it.

a cluster development like this would be better than five individual homes on these lots because we're able to preserve more of the natural vegetation on the site.

I drive Williston eight times in a day, five five time five days a week. That's 40 times. And I just really wanted to say I I really don't think that that access for that property works very well.

at the neighborhood gathering, clearly, um, the traffic was the largest concern... before you can proceed, you absolutely must have some kind of traffic study done there.

one family now becomes 11 families. So, that's a pretty big difference. As As you talk about, well, they're going to be in the same spot and you're going to be doing all that, it really isn't that. It's the difference between one family and 11 families.

I like the plan because it would appear that these would be more affordable units than stand-alone single-family homes, and I do like the preservation of the natural area.

The simple fact is is that your design, I believe, is much better from what it was existing there with a number of curb cuts. You've been able to pull that farther away from the Highway 7, so I think that's a huge improvement.

it would be helpful to eliminate an access point off of Williston. Uh the rezoning I'm agnostic at this point. Uh possibly. But the the point is well taken about the probably the need for a traffic study that would make this better.