The commission is funded through 5% cable franchise fees, 2.75 PEG fees, but people are consuming their content differently. We've seen a 43% decrease in revenue, and we simply need to modernize our funding model.

When we talk about the future of franchising for local governments, in my view, the future of franchising really is in broadband.

I think there's primarily two risks really there's one the risk of possible litigation over the authority of the local government to require a franchise... The other risk is that a company decides they're just not going to come.

I find it absolutely abhorentt in the year 2026 that we have areas that don't have it when we're a second ring suburb. Like, that's just inexcusable. So, I think this is a very good vehicle for it.

one thing that we found out recently is that our population numbers that we knew they were seem low, but that they were um low because of the White Bear Lake case that the Met Council took that into consideration and lowered numbers for a few cities around the area.

What they stated is that they don't feel comfortable changing the policy position beyond 2040 due to the White Bear Lake memo.

I just I think those decisions were were forced in the sense because Met Council said you have to do this despite Lake Elmo not wanting to to do those things, right? And so I it is challenging because I I look at this I'm like man we have an opportunity to get kind of what we were originally looking for when we had this debate with Met Council years ago.

What we have seen in the last two comp plan cycles is that density requirements for communities have risen. So 2040 the requirement was for Lake Elmo in developing areas within the Musa to be at 3.0 units per acre and now you're required to be at 3.5.

The district is offering the property to the city for potential use as a public amenity or open space. If the city declines, the district plans to sell the par the parcels to on public auction with um with conservation easements which place um which will will restrict any building on those sites.

staff does believe that improving that to a culde-sac would benefit traffic flow through that area, uh especially for emergency vehicles.

I think it would be all parcels, do it all at once, but they do all the restoration.

his description was Legion Pond when his kids were growing up. You could literally walk in it and you'd be at knee height in the middle of it. But it's gotten deeper over the last couple decades as there's been more impervious around the area as the thing has increased in how much it floods each time.