Good evening and welcome to the Newport City Council meeting. We'll begin the meeting with the Pledge of Allegiance. Please join us in standing if you're able. I 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. >> Will staff please call the role. >> Council member Schmidt >> here. >> Council member Sumar >> here. >> Council member Ingaman >> here. >> Council member Taylor >> here. >> Mayor Elliot >> here. Next on our agenda is to adopt the agenda. Do we have any changes to the agenda? >> Hearing none, I'll move the agenda is printed. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Schmidt to adopt the agenda as presented. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The agenda is adopted. Next on our agenda is public comments. As we have no members of the public here this evening, we will move on to the consent agenda. Um the consent agenda is all routine items that are uh considered by a single motion with the city council and there's no separate discussion unless a council member or staff so request in which case we'll remove from the consent agenda. Is there anything on the consent agenda that we'd like removed? >> I'll move the consent agenda. >> Thank you. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Ingamman and a a second from council member Sumar to adopt the consent agenda as presented. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The consent agenda is adopted. Um, next on our agenda is the Washington County Sheriff's Office report. Sergeant Leget is unable to be with us this evening, so we will move on to the fire chief's report and our chief is making his way to the podium. >> He's running real fast. >> Yeah. Good evening, mayor and council. Uh just an update for this month or past month. We had 26 calls for the month of May. Two mutual aid out, one to Kaj Grove, one to St. Paul, and then uh one mutual aid in from Woodbury and Kajrove for a fire on uh 10th Street. Uh we're in the second phase of our hiring process. Uh we did our initial interviews and physical agility test. And from there, we moved five people on to the medical screening and psychological evaluation. So, they got their letters yesterday. So, they'll be scheduling those in the next couple weeks, and we'll take it from there. Uh, Monday, June 8th. So, next Monday, the Chiefs will be going to Oakdale at Tanner's Lake to watch the Washington County dive team do some exercises and see where we fit in with the airboat and how they perform and procedures. Uh, CAD update. Uh, CAD is our basically our computerized dispatching for the fire department. A lot of things they don't air on the radio. It's all going to be on computers. So, we have iPads now. And we have CAD installed and all the iPads that will be going into all the apparatus here probably in the next couple weeks. So, two Chief vehicles already have that have that in. They've been about a year or so now, but now just apparatus are getting to it, too. So, it's a very exciting thing for everybody because now you can see all the comments and any updates and everything else and slow down on rail traffic and just hit on scene and all those other things. So, should definitely improve the flow. Um, the fire department's also going to be making a visit to the or noa Washington County Head Start program. We have a presentation there. They had asked us to come and uh speak to the the kids there. So, uh, Captain Hener and Assistant Chief Hutchinson are going to go there and present to them. So, it should be exciting for them. They get about 25 minutes, so they got a lot of time to fill up, but I think they can handle it. Uh, and then next Wednesday, we are going to be doing our radiological training. We do this annually with Cottage Grove, Minnesota Department of Health, MPCA in case there's some kind of incident down in Redwing. the flow would be coming up to us and we'll be our part is to decon vehicles and personnel. So we'll be training on that once a year. We had our classroom portion of it few weeks ago and now this is a practical portion. So >> that is all I have. I'll stand for any questions. >> Council member Sar, >> did I hear you say that there's going to be iPads uh issued to everyone? Is that including the firefighters or will they still >> just apparatus? >> Just the apparatus. Okay. So, the guys will still have a pager on their side. >> Yeah. This is just for the dispatching when we get a call. So, they'll be able to route where they're going and everything else. So, it'll be basically anything that they send out on the page will be on the iPad so they can read through the comments and everything else. >> Okay. >> Much like the sheriff department and stuff have. Yep. >> Yep. Okay. >> Thanks for that update. >> Yep. No problem. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Have a good evening. >> Uh, next on our agenda, we have our engineers. uh report. We have John Herdigan with us this evening. >> Thank you, mayor, members of the council. Uh one item for formal consideration and then a handful of project updates. Uh first, the uh water system interconnection. Uh we've completed all of the uh installation of the equipment and water mane. Uh and we're coordinating a startup of those facilities with the uh with the uh city systems integrator, public works staff, as well as Cottage Grove. So, we're hoping that that will get scheduled here in the next couple weeks. and then the the system will be up and running and then uh looking to um train or transfer over to be uh using that water on a full-time basis for for Cottage Grove. Prior to that, we will be getting some notification out to the residents letting them know that this is happening. Put together an FAQ sheet so folks know uh if there's any uh if there's any concerns and trying to head off some of those questions as they as they come through. Uh the uh contractor A1 has uh submitted a partial payment request uh based on the amount of work completed to date. They are uh virtually complete aside from the 5% uh retainage. Uh their request is $36,366. Uh we would look for council to consider authorizing partial payment number seven. >> Okay. Do you have a motion? I'll make that motion to authorize partial payment number seven. >> I'll second. >> Uh I have a motion from Council Member Sumar and two people who would love to second that motion. I think I'll I'll hand it off to Schmidt this time around. Um I'll save you Tom for another one later this evening. Um with that, any discussion or questions on that? >> A couple questions. >> Yes, Council Member Schmidt. So, uh, Interconnect, are we looking like a July 1st or sooner or do we have any concrete dates for the actual turning this on for the city? >> I don't have a concrete date yet. Uh, we're we're completing some modeling for the city of Cottage Grove. They wanted to verify the uh that there aren't any upstream issues on their end once we turn this on. Uh so I would hope again that we would be getting that startup done this month and then having some having some testing or probably mid June trying to test toward the end of the uh month. Make sure uh public works is comfortable as well as Cottage Grove. I think July 1st is potentially possible but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes beyond that. >> That's great. And then uh are we expecting any water uh charge increase? I know we're buying bulk, so I don't know if we have any insight into how this affects water rates and all that stuff. >> Maybe maybe we don't, but >> um our residents will pay the same rates as any other resident in Newport. >> So, they won't see any sort of an increase happen as a result of this. >> It's our water rates or our water rates and that's >> that will cover that. >> Thanks for explaining. >> Yep. Okay, with that I have a motion and a second. Any other discussion? >> All those in favor of the partial payment say I. I. Those opposed, the partial payment is approved. >> Then just a few updates. Uh we completed a walkthrough of the sport court uh reconstruction project. Uh looks like things are in line for uh issuing a final payment for that project at your uh meeting on the 18th of June. uh staff had done the walkthrough with the contractor. The court itself was uh was in very good shape and uh we had a lot of activity when we were out there. So, we're pleased to see the the use uh taking place. So, you can expect that uh final payment at your next meeting. Uh we had our pre-construction meeting for Third Avenue uh earlier today. Contractors pretty eager to get going. They're going to mobilize to the site on Monday. Um, and then they're going to start excavating and replacing the sewer and water at the intersection of 17th Street and Third Avenue beginning the following Monday, so June 15th. So, we'll be we'll be getting a newsletter out uh right away now that we know the schedule to the property owners. There is a a web page or a page on the city's website that will be providing that public outreach. Encourage council members if you're interested in what we're communicating out. Uh there's a uh a dedicated page under the public works um drop down and yeah that'll be that'll be probably some of the hardest excavation that they do. So they're uh jumping in head first because it's some of the deepest uh sewer in that area as well as the our pipelines going through uh on 17th. So um had had a great meeting with Gistlinger. They have worked in town before. they're familiar with the with the bedrock, which is one of the issues that a lot of new or newer contractors get a little um have issues with if they're not familiar. And then lastly, uh Meyer Contracting is returning to complete some work on the 2025 street improvements project. They are going to be putting in the storm sewer from the river uh along the unimproved portion of 17th Street, so just south of the tank farms. Uh that'll be uh starting on Monday. It'll last about two weeks. They're going to be putting in the um grit chamber, which is for storm water management, and then crossing over uh Cedar and then working their uh their way up 17th uh about 100 ft or so. And that will be uh that will conclude what they're planning to do now. uh pending some uh some continued negotiation with our with the affformentioned pipeline folks to get that final connection made. >> Council member Sumar, >> when they do the excavation in the bedrock, are they going to be able to do it all with with uh back hose or will they need to do some blasting? >> Uh no blasting. Uh Meyer has used a rock wheel. It's a big uh reciprocating uh uh gear that will chew up that bedrock. Okay. They may do uh uh jackhammering with a uh with a jackhammer attached to a backhoe, but uh no blasting. We hadn't uh we we haven't done any blasting yet on that project, nor do we anticipate it. Okay. >> Other questions for John? >> Okay. Well, thank you very much. And just a reminder to our community, there's a lot of these construction projects going on. Please leave a little early. Um, pack your patience with you. Um, thank them for doing the work. It'll be great when it's all done. Um, but we just have a very busy year in Newport. Finishing some of last year's work on second. We've got the work on 17th. We've got the work starting on third. And we've got the 65th Street uh work happening. And when that is done, they will uh the county will then start working on their portion of Hastings Avenue, Glenn Road going south and then um the pedestrian overpass over here coming north on 7th 2nd and up Maxwell. So that's kind of what you can expect. Uh county doesn't have any projects planned for next year and I think we might even be a little bit quieter ourselves on some of this uh work that we're trying to get done. probably more finish up work, but this year is going to be a challenge. And just tell yourself that and and know that we got >> for the better of the city. >> We got millions and millions of dollars to help pay for this. So, >> so we're we're trying to keep the the cost down and so it's a good thing, but it's can be annoying. So, thank you. Um, next we have the superintendent of public works. >> Uh, good evening, Mayor Elliot and Council members. I have nothing formal this evening. Um, but I do have an update. Uh the grant that we partnered with the DNR um to remove dead or dying trees, including on private property, um is actually online under uh the public works department and tree grant. So, if you have a tree that you have that's dead or dying in your yard and you want to see if you qualify, there's an application and all kinds of information on the website. Um, and if you know if you still have more questions, feel free to reach out to me at public works. But, um, pretty exciting. This is the first time we've been able to do work on private property for something like this. Um, so could be a huge help. Um, the second part is even if you don't get a tree removed, you can get a tree to plant in your yard. So, um, you know, if you're interested in a replacement tree, you had to take one out earlier, you just don't have enough trees in your yard, um, that information is on there as well. Um, so, uh, like I said, look, >> is there a deadline for that application? >> Uh, the end of August is the deadline. I believe the 28th of August. >> Um, but, uh, the last Friday in August is is the deadline. And then we'll have some uh basically we'll have to go through and verify all the applications, look at all the trees, line up the information, and then the contractor would potentially come in uh November, December time frame once the ground is frozen to minimize yard damage. But uh yeah, it should be should be a pretty big uh pretty big benefit for uh residents if they do have that affecting them. So >> Okay. And have we put that out on our website and Facebook page and events announcement >> yet? >> Uh mayor, members of the council, it went live today. Um and I will be sharing uh a link and it's it's a really good site. I I uh uh assistant city administrator Jill Tyfeld put it together. Um and there's a number of trees folks can choose their their w which trees they prefer. and there's a a lot of really good uh uh uh options there for folks. So, um that will be shared with council and then uh we'll kind of be launching it officially starting tomorrow. So, super excited. >> Yeah. And if you haven't had a tree removed, it's expensive. So, take advantage of this program. We have up to what $125,000 I think was the grant. >> It's a little over $130,000 total. So, >> okay. So, when the money's gone, the money's gone. So, >> right. >> First in, first out. Yep. Great. Anything else? Any questions for Matt? >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Uh, moving on, we have the administrator's report, >> mayor, members of the council. Um, nothing much tonight. Uh, I mean, uh, we have, uh, city planner Nathan first here to go through a number of items. He does have a presentation for council and uh we'll start with the Bailey Business Park. >> Great. Uh thanks administrator Hatch. Good evening, mayor, members of the council. So uh I've got just a quick editorial note, this presentation will cover uh items 11 A and B in your packet. So we're just going to because the reports were so so similar, they're part of a kind of an interconnected project. Present on uh both of them at the same time. Uh second note for me before I get started. Uh these projects were formerly called Bailey Nurseries Business Park and Bailey Nurseries uh multif family and gas station. Bailey Nurseries. The company has requested that uh these be just rec re retitled Bailey Business Park just to kind of keep things clean. So if there are questions about the names that that should address them. >> Uh I think we're all very familiar with the site uh that's currently under review. Uh we've got over 200 acres in total that the Bailey's Bailey Nurseries own. Uh Newport has roughly 40 acres that you can see on the screen north of Bailey Road. Um this is a a a site plan or a diagram that was included in the environmental impact or sorry the uh EAW the assessment worksheet on the project that kind of explains the different uses going on in the overall area. And so um you can see that there is uh kind of a phased development across the cities of Woodbury, Newport, and Maplewood with different land uses going on in each community. Uh some of these phases are more imminent than others. Uh development in Newport and Woodbury is kind of seen as the first phase of this overall site development. And here you can see a little bit more detail. These are uh this is the preliminary plat that was filed with the city of Woodbury for the portion of the project in that community. So uh just I think one quick note is that staff uh between these three communities there are three cities, two counties, two wersheds. We have been coordinating uh on this project for years now. So um a lot of this I know that you have heard before. So uh here is an overview of the overall project area. Can you just back up one slide because you did a great job labeling Maplewood and Newport, but Newport is just for the public. It's just that little notch at the bottom there. All that stuff >> north or going up and to the right, that's all Woodberry. So, I know people are it's hard for people to visualize where this is really going because that Bailey Road is just long and it's a lot of farm fields. But just so people don't think all of that stuff going uh to the north there, that that's not Newport. Thought we annexed that in here, didn't we? >> Thought we annexed that. >> Yeah. Yeah. Until we annex it. >> We'll arm wrestle him for it. >> Um, so we have the site plan for the the development, the the roughly 40 acres within the city of Newport. That's on the screen now. Uh, we have three different applicants as part of this project within the city of Newport. And so that breaks out as generally shown on the screen here. So, we've got United Properties, which is uh responsible for really the the first phase of this project, the the first uh final phase of the final platite improvements that will bring utilities to the site. You've also got real estate equities and Quick Trip uh proposing a multif family building and a gas station on the southeast uh side of the site. So, this is generally how the development breaks out. Uh I'm going to walk through an overview of the land use for the whole site and then we'll talk about the United Properties proposals followed by the real estate equities and quick trip proposals and then we'll kind of wrap things up with the uh staff recommendation. Uh this slide was a carryover from planning commission. So there is no public hearing this evening. Um we have the project overview here. So you've heard quite a bit from me already on this. The current zoning for this site is business park which is B1 and it is uh there is a small area of the site within the shoreland overlay that's complicated things a little bit and added a few uh resolutions and approvals to the packet. We'll talk through those things. Uh here is the city's future land use map. You can see that the site is guided commercial residential. Uh this is a really broad future land use category. allows a wide range of things which it's kind of all in the name uh include commercial and residential land uses and then here is the site zoning. So this the entire site is zoned business park and through the concept plan review process we established that um the the current zoning business park is perfectly acceptable for the United Properties side of the project but we would need a new base zoning district for the multifamily and gas station projects. So, those are that reasonzoning is included in the PUD ordinance and we can talk about that if there's questions. As a just as a reminder for for uh members of the public and the council, this is the preliminary plot process. So, at this stage, we're beginning to get really detailed into the review. Uh there is still a final plat that will be required and we'll talk about next steps. Uh unique to this site in particular is uh coordination that's been going on for, as I mentioned, you know, a couple years at this point. Um we have been working with Woodbury where development is most imminent. They have been working on a growth area plan that establishes um requirements for the general area within Woodbury with the intention that u both communities should have kind of a seamless integration together. This should be feeling like one kind of community as it were. So uh we're connecting the transportation network together. uh thinking about landscaping and how that can be compatible along with architecture including amenities or signs. Okay, so now I'm going to jump into the Bailey business park proposal. So here you see the preliminary plat that was submitted for Bailey uh business park and the uh plat is broken out into generally four different lots. You have uh one lot on the north side of the site. And as you move south, you have a public road that will be dedicated through the plat. And then you have one lot that will contain the other United Properties building. You have an outlot that will contain the real estate equities and quick trip uh sites. So that that's the the southeast corner that I talked about. And then you have a small outlot on the southwest corner that will contain a future city lift station for wastewater. So, uh, the requests for for this part of the project include the preliminary plat that you just saw, uh, a planned unit development for some flexibility, and shoreland conditional use permit invarian. We'll talk through all those. Um, as I mentioned, the comprehensive plan guides the site for a wide range of uses. This this uses seen to fit. Uh, just a really quick note, this is a from the utility plans that were submitted with the project. We have a pretty uh significant run of utilities from the current kind of terminus at Sterling along Bailey Road. So, there will be a kind of an off-site improvement project that will bring the utilities from the current point that they terminate just north of Sterling to the uh subject property. So, that will be included and that has been under review as well by the county. That is a county road corridor. They'll need county approvals for that work as well. And the costs for that extension are borne by the city. >> The developer will pay the costs. >> Thank you. >> So, uh, shoreland overlay. Uh, this, as I mentioned, does kind of create some minor complications to the project. Uh, pretty straightforward here with the industrial site. Um, the industrial use or potentially an industrial use if it takes place in these buildings. I should mention uh at this point the buildings that United Properties is proposing are speculative. Uh I say that only because they don't have tenants that are signed up for for being within. So we don't know if it's exactly industrial or commercial. So we're um getting a conditional use permit for for both. Basically, um the variances that would be needed for this the small part of this United Property site within the shoreline overlay include an impervious surface variance to have over 25% impervious and uh that same impervious surface variance for the city outlaw containing the lift station. So any portion of the site within the shoreline overlay is looked at independently for that 25% maximum. We also have to council member Sar, >> what's the red line represent? >> The red line I should have mentioned that that is the shoreland overlay boundary. So the shoreland overlay is a thousand feet from Ria Lake which is south of here. >> Yeah, >> good question. >> Uh and here is that boundary. If we zoom in and look at the the location of that boundary, uh very small part of the sites within it. Uh if we look at the bulk standards, these are the area lot area setbacks etc. uh the lots more than meet the city standards uh with the area and the building setbacks where the developer does need a little flexibility is with the parking setbacks. So the setbacks for the parking lots from uh the front yard boundary along Bailey and the sideyard boundary along the real estate equities project. And so when uh particularly industrial projects are next to residential there is an increased setback needed and so in this case they need a little flexibility in those areas. Uh the other area of flexibility the city allows a lot coverage per site of 75% they're just they are just over at 77 and 75% respectively and so they are asking for some flexibility. So the setback flexibility that I think people would would look to learn a little bit more about is shown on the screen. Uh you can see generally a box north of Bailey Road which would be on the south side of the screen that kind of roughly captures the area of parking within that setback. And then this box here uh there is a wide drive here to accommodate vehicle turning movements. They need that extra space for the for the semi-tra. Talking about building design, uh we've got an updated uh rendering on the screen here. This has been uh really kind of um kind of on the fly uh revisions to the to the proposal. This is uh fresh off the press as of like a day or so ago. So, the developer heard feedback from planning commission and in the report uh and has uh modified the building to match the area guidelines uh more closely. So, things like the color palette uh with that Woodbury growth area plan. Uh generally the buildings within this whole area should be consistent. Uh the developer has also proposed to increase the window area specifically at the end caps that'll be most visible from like the Bailey road corridor. So um here's that color palette that I mentioned. Building design meets the city standards. And um I do want to note that the city of Newport does have a requirement for um retail or office uses in commercial districts. That basically requires that they have 40% window coverage on the first floor. In a business park area, that's not typical. And so staff are recommending that flexibility be granted through the PUB uh tree removal. So this uh United Properties part of the project will be responsible for removing trees that are primarily on the perimeter of the site. Uh they will be making up for uh those tree removals through their landscaping plan. So here's that landscaping plan. Um the landscaping meets the city's standards. The one area that I think we need to look at a little bit more closely as we move forward is the growth area plan. Uh specifically, um the city of Woodbury has some specific treatment that they're planning along the Bailey Road corridor. And so we just want to be able to say we're going to look at the configuration of your plantings with the final plat to make sure that you don't have like one very specific planting pattern in Woodbury and then you hit the Newport line and you're you got something else. So we'll try to do our best to make that be more consistent. >> Do we do we have any ideas? I mean, is there going to be a center island on Bailey when the reconstruction is done? >> Oh, a median on the county road. >> Yeah. >> Um, you know, I I don't know, Joe, if you have any information from the county on that. >> Uh, mayor, members of the council, the the the county is looking at um doing some changes here. Uh, but there's no design um uh yet that I've seen. So, I I would say it's highly likely uh cuz it'll look probably like other portions of Bailey that are farther east of this location and and then usually there is a not always but there there are in some locations kind of the roundabouts and then some medians but you know we haven't we haven't seen anything yet. Um, as far as timing, I would expect things to occur as the development occurs and then bigger changes probably around 29 to 2030. >> Okay, thank you. >> Um, okay. So, shifting gears to parking and loading. Uh, this is where again, uh, flexibility is requested through the planned unit development. So um it's kind of challenging to understand what the parking demand is because we don't know what the users are. And so the city creates uh demand based on the use. In this case uh we've just created a table here that um looks at you know what if we we have uh the buildings occupied by retail light industrial or warehousing. The site you know the bottom line is that the site would meet if it's all warehousing but it may not meet if it's retail or office space within these exclusively. So there will ultimately be likely a mix of different users. At the end of the day, uh there there seem to be enough surface parking stalls to accommodate reasonably the anticipated mix of uses here. So uh I guess staff are comfortable with what we're seeing in the in the proposal. >> Yeah, I got a question on the loading part of that diagram. So, and maybe this is just kind of a dumb question, but it looks like the only way in and out for any semi-traffic would be through the north side. Is that >> correct? >> Uh, it's it's probably accurate uh based on the size of that access. So, that's actually a good transition here. Access. Um, >> there you go. >> So, we have two accesses access points, one for each lot that are effectively oversized. They're larger than the city allows by code. Um, in this case with the business park use, uh, staff identified this, but do find the proposed accesses to be reasonable because these are the accesses that are most likely to be used by the semi vehicles that use these sites. So, if you look at the locations, uh, generally they're a little further away from any intersections that might create issues with turning movements and things like that. So, >> I don't know if that completely answers your question, but I think we expect that access to be the most utilized by the semis. I >> I think it does. And and this is way out of my depth, but I didn't know if that causes concerns with only having a oneway in and out. Like I I don't know what problems this may introduce if there's only one way for them to get in or out. I guess there's an emergency exit through the parking area on the south in this case and and I guess on the top part on the east side. So, I guess technically an emergency they could get through, but >> correct. Okay. >> Yep. So there are uh three access points for each lot with the industrial building on it. But uh as far as what the vehicle uh you know turning movements and needs are, I actually think the developer will be able to speak well to that question as well. >> Isn't that big of a priority? I think you've covered it. So thank you. >> Yep. >> Uh hitting uh access for pedestrians here. Uh I just want to talk about the sidewalks and trails thrown shown through this project. Uh we've worked with Woodbury to understand what the larger trail and sidewalk network will look like through their growth area plan. So uh what we're seeing here is generally going to be consistent. The sidewalk uh proposed with this development is shown in yellow on the screen and future trail corridors are shown in red. And so ultimately this site needs to really interconnect with the larger trail system. I think what we're seeing here will will do that. So, is the county intending on the reconstruction to have a trail on the north and south side of Bailey? >> I know there will be a trail on the north side of Bailey Road. Okay. >> I think it is a county typical standard to have a trail on both sides of a county road. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. And so, the other piece I wanted to talk about really quick is just lighting. Um the one area on the lighting plan, the photoometric plan that looked a little bit out of line was just the area that's immediately next to the residential building. I think if we can decrease the lighting at that property boundary will hopefully, you know, create less nuisance conditions hopefully for those residents to have to deal with. >> There are privacy trees or what what is the >> correct you can see that the uh developer is proposing some um screening trees. So, these would be trees that would hopefully I think they're evergreens that would be, you know, helping helping to mitigate some of the light. >> That'd be pretty. >> Okay. Some other considerations on this part of the project. Uh, Parkland dedication staff recommend cash in loo. Uh, and we've gotten lots of review comments along the way. Um, city engineering memos in the report. Washington County has provided a review memo. Uh, we did reach out to the DNR, the DOT. Uh both of those departments did not uh provide any comments to us and South Washington watershed district also had an opportunity to review. So we do have findings in the staff report that would support approval of the preliminary plat the planned unit development uh and the variance and conditional use permit. Uh really quickly to talk about the variance in in particular um the area uh this larger development has what's referred to as regional storm water ponding. And so to grant a a variance on imperous surface, you do want to consider like where is that storm water going. In this case, it's not going towards Rio lake. It's actually going to the north into a regional pond. >> Uh we've slightly re retoled the conditions in the staff report, but they're very similar to what the planning commission reviewed and recommended. Um, generally they break down into very standard conditions and then some of the unique conditions, many of which I've talked about in in my presentation so far. One thing that I haven't mentioned is monument signage. I'm paying close attention to that because I think the entry point at the century extension is going to be a really key focal entry and so we want to make sure that we're not off base on either side. All right, moving on to the multif family and gas station portion. Uh here is that preliminary plat. So they're basically just cutting that out lot in half. Uh so we've got the same set of applications here uh with the addition of that reszoning for the underlying zoning district here. The shoreland overlay, you can see that in red. It's a little bit further into this part of the development site. Uh this does create a need for a conditional use permit for the gas station. It also creates a need for variances to impervious surface like what we talked about for the United Properties site. In addition to those with residential planned unit developments, we we have additional requirements for um what's called a tiering analysis. I'll I'll go through that really briefly. And then there are also open space requirements for planned unit developments. And so um the city cannot give flexibility through a planned unit development to shoreland rules. we actually have to use variances for that. And so that's why you're seeing that in your report. So a tiering analysis is a look at different uh tiers that are based on fixed distances from a lake. In this case, that's real lake. Uh the developer has to calculate how many units they're allowed to have within whichever tier they are. The purpose or the goal is to really try to have development that's located as far away from a a water body as possible. In this case, the math is working against the developer. They have a very small amount of land that's at the furthest tier. It doesn't really give them a lot to work with in terms of what they're allowed. So, if you look at the strict letter of the law, they would be allowed to have something like seven residential units in the shoreland overlay and they have, you know, maybe 74 units approximately within their building. So, staff are recommending approval of that particular variance. There are a couple of flexibilities requested through the planned unit development. Those are related to lot coverage. Uh specifically, oh uh no, that's just lot coverage in the shoreline. Sorry. At building height though, as proposed, the residential building would be uh just over 2 ft taller than the city's maximum. Here is that residential building. Uh you can see this is the the rendering that was provided and shown at the planning commission. This is still what they're proposing. Uh generally speaking, this building design is consistent with that color palette. Uh they're using slightly different colors, but it will blend in with the overall uh development scheme. The same kind of colors uh just generally in the palette. So um they are requesting flexibility to the specifically to the requirement for the amount of bricks on the on the surface of the building. They're supposed to have uh 30%. What we're seeing is just around 15% at about 14. Um what this calculation doesn't necessarily include is the concrete masonry at the bottom of the building. So on the facades that'll be the most visible. There is actually a higher share of brick on the facades. The quick trip building, it will look like a quick trip. I don't know that I need to say much more. I think you you know what that looks like. Mhm. >> Uh and then here again is a reminder of that color palette, the building design, etc. We've looked at these again against the growth area plan. Uh landscaping. So with the real estate equity site, they are um meeting the overall landscaping requirement. Um but they are just short of the parking lot landscaping requirement. Both the real estate equities and Quick Trip sites are are you know they're a little constrained. they're they're a little tight and so they are asking for some flexibility on uh strict conformance with the parking lot island requirement. That's usually 10%, what we're seeing on the real estate equity side is about four and on the quick trip gas station two and a half. So um you don't see a lot of parking islands at gas stations. I think that's probably a reasonable request as well. Uh and again I'm noting here monument sign coordination uh again as they as as we move forward. We know, you know, QuickRip has uh signage typically at their sites and so we'll be working with them to make sure that it it's consistent. Um parking and loading. So parking uh the Quick Trip site is conforming with the city's parking standards. The real estate equities building, the multif family building is uh it is low. And so um I have the breakdown in the staff report. It's generally shown on the screen. The bottom line is that um you're going to you're going to have 360 stalls proposed with this um building and that's basically comes out to a 1.9 stall per unit ratio. If we think about other buildings in the city of Newport, you can think about Red Rock Square 2. That building has a ratio of 1.7 stalls per unit and they have not had fixed route transit service. So this we haven't really received many complaints if any about parking there and so I think that this ratio generally is workable. Um the other thing is is 184 unit building and as you increase the number of units this math kind of inflates a little bit the number of stalls. Yeah I >> I think with uh Newport Commons um 25% of that building is uh people who have support services to assist them. And one of the reasons the parking uh requirement was less than normal was that they were not expected to have uh vehicles. So that is one of the reasons that there aren't parking issues there. Um but I have seen the lot like full but not overflowing. And I, you know, my only question would be what happens when if there are not enough parking spots here? And I think, you know, the one-bedroom units, you can't just say that's necessarily a one car because if it's a married couple, you may find that there's two vehicles for that um particular unit. So, I'm just What's the What's the backup plan? So, um, I think I'll let the developer speak to their exper honestly, they're going to be well positioned to tell you a little bit about their experience with parking and why they're they think that's a reasonable ratio. >> Okay. >> Uh, quickly, access. So, there's two access points to this general part of the site. You've got the one shown in red. That's a shared access that's just slightly over the city's uh, standard allowed 32 foot width for these types of uses. Uh it's at about 36 ft. So staff find that to be reasonable, especially because you're going to see, you know, larger vehicles turning into that part of the site. You've also got a an access that will serve the quick trip for passenger vehicles. >> Here you can see shown in red now the sidewalks that will kind of serve for circulation through this area. >> It I do have a question. >> Council member Schmidt >> on the south side of the Quick Trip. What What is that whole area there? >> The holding pond. Yes. No. North of the holding pond. >> So there is a diesel pump here that's proposed. Formerly the diesel pump was on the west side of the site. They've considered you know the proximity to the residential and moved that to the south. So that's a diesel pump in circulation uh for that. You can see kind of here. So right. So the idea I think is that the larger vehicles that need to access that pump there is no truck parking. So this should not be a you know truck parking lot. This will be you know just grab fuel on the go. >> There is a there is a storm water pond that will serve the quick trip site and then that will go the overflow from that pond will go to the north. >> That's helpful. Thank you. >> For mixed uh for mixed use developments they are required to submit or provide 10% of land for parkland dedication. So staff are proposing as well that this is cash and loo. Uh, these residential units will have on-site amenities and they will also have pretty quick access to a trail system that will get them to other recreational amenities in this area. As mentioned, we've had comments from the city engineering department, uh, Washington County, and no comments from the DNR, DOT, and South Washington wershed. Uh we do have findings in the staff report that would support uh the reasonzoning here through the PUD ordinance, the preliminary plat approval, planned unit development, and the uh the variances and conditional use permit. So for this side of the project, we have uh proposed 11 recommended conditions. They're found in the resolutions for approval. uh a couple of the unique conditions are very similar to the United property side of the project. So making sure those tree plantings are ultimately consistent with some of the area. Okay. So uh that was like the detail that was all the details the next steps. Uh of course the city council will review and make a determination tonight. Uh pending approval the development would look to begin grading likely before a final plat. So what that means is uh there that there may be work that begins on site only for grading purposes uh in between approval potentially this evening and um the final plat and development agreement. So I do have a list of example motions uh for the Bailey business park side and I also have them for the um Bailey Road multif family and gas station side of the project. I will note that the whole development team is here for you if you have questions. So that's all I have. So, um, I'll start with any questions the council may have or additional questions that, uh, we have for Nathan. If there aren't any, um, we'll have we'll, I think, start with the business park first because that's our first list of, uh, motions to approve and then we can go into the, um, apartment building and the gas station. So, that's just kind of kind of just everybody kind of knows where I'm thinking of going. So, any other questions for Nathan at this time? And again, this is preliminary approval, not final approval. So there can always be some other adjustments that happen as they learn things through grading and and other happenings, which is uh common. Council member uh Taylor, >> I can wait till later. >> No questions. Okay. >> Later. >> Okay. With that, um let's just representatives from the business park, you've heard a little a few of our questions. If you want to kind of come on up, give your name. um so people know who you are and where you're from again. >> Hello, I'm Connor McCarthy. I work with United Properties. Um and our address is 2550 Nicollet Mall, uh downtown Minneapolis. Um I had a couple of slides, but I think after seeing Nathan's presentation, it's not necessary. Um so I really just wanted to say thank you. Uh we've been working on this uh with your staff for I want to say close to two years now and um we're really excited to get started on this project. We plan to own these buildings long term and so uh we look to be a good partner of yours and um deliver a product that this not only we are proud of but that the city's proud of. So um really I'm here to answer questions and if there's anything I can clarify I'll be of assistance. Are either one of these your diagrams or they both belong to you guys? >> No, they're both these guys. >> I suppose we do have a render. Do you have access to that rendering that if we could pull that up? So, this is our version. Uh quite less pretty than these visuals that these guys have brought. But um we did modify this as Nathan suggested over since since planning commission to now to really um address some of the um the Woodbury planning area. Um there's there's color palettes and there's design criteria that we originally had come in over a year ago with a plan that we liked and now have morphed into into what you see here today. And uh we've added a few more windows um changed colors around and we're proud of what we've got right now. Okay. >> Add a few more shades of brown to the mix, maybe. >> It's funny. So, I'm color blind. Um, so I didn't put this together, but but part of the color palette was warmer color. So, we actually started there was blue in the plan and and so that's a big part that's changed. >> Okay. Um, questions for Connor. Council member Sumar, >> please explain your process for screening residents and dealing with problematic residents. >> Sure. This isn't >> Yeah, >> there this is the business park. So, this is more the warehouse uh production. Okay. Commercial industrial, but save that question. They'll that group will be up next. >> And I can give you a preview answer because we've built projects next to each other before. Um actually, Real Estate Equities and United Properties have and it's been very seamless. I think it actually was part of the reason that we decided to work together again. So, I think you'll like his answer. Okay. Okay. Well, thank you so much. Um, with that, uh, I think if if Quick Trip wants to come up first and, um, real estate equity second or vice versa, it's up to it's up to you. Can talk a little bit about your project and I know Quick Trip has brought some renderings. I know. >> First, please. >> Okay. Real estate equities will be up first. Okay. >> Hold the boards. >> Hello, uh, mayor, members of the city council. appreciate you having us here tonight. Uh I'm Alex Bzans. I'm a partner with Real Estate Equities. Um I've got a brief presentation. It's about eight or nine slides long. So I'll kind of just uh go through those rather quickly. I think Nathan did a really nice job on the presentation. So um just a little background on the company. So Real Estate Equities has been in business since 1972. Uh the company's based right here in the Twin Cities in St. Paul, Minnesota. Um we currently own about 5,000 multif family apartment units. Um the majority of those units are in the Twin Cities, Rochester, and then we've done some projects also in Arizona. Um the second bullet point just kind of specifies that we're long-term owners and we also uh self-manage all the properties that we build. Um and we own these properties uh again long term. So next slide. This is just kind of a you know an example of a couple of recent projects that we've built uh here in the Twin Cities. Uh Decatur Landing is in Brooklyn Park. Uh Arbor Court is in St. Park. Uh the landing at Amber Fields is in Rosemount and Springhouse is Rapids. So uh the next slide uh again these are just interior finishes um of some projects as well um of the same ones um you just saw I think with the exception of Astro House and Egan. But this just shows a representation of the finish levels in the kitchens um you know in the common areas of some of the buildings that we've that we've built. Um this is the site plan that Scott also has holding right here. And so the current proposed building is 184 units. Um it's 36 one-bedroom units. It's 100 two-bedroom units and it's 48 three-bedroom units. Um the total number of parking stalls um right now is 374 in total. That's 172 covered stalls and 188 uncovered. um with a total parking ratio of 1.95 stalls per unit. Uh this first rendering is again just an example of the exterior design that we've come up with. Cass Wilson, our architect, uh you know, who's also here in the audience too to address any questions related to design. Uh next slide. And this is another example that Scott's also holding here that shows kind of the view um as you're turning into the project with quick trip with the building uh in the background. And that is another example of uh just a different kind of periphery view uh as you turn into the into the project as well. Um building details. So community amenities. So, we fully intend to have a fitness center, a club room, uh underground parking, um an outdoor recreation area, uh a dog run, um as well as an outdoor patio that'll have a barbecue area that'll be kind of an extension from the community room. Uh unit amenities, stainless steel appliances, in-unit washer and dryer, uh granite countertops, uh high quality cabinetry, uh and luxury vinyl plank flooring. Um just some sustainability elements of the building. So um we're designing this to Energy Star certification uh and enterprise green communities with the Minnesota overlay. Um, some of those design elements that are associated with this are Energy Star appliances, EV charging stations, uh, solar ready roof, uh, high efficiency mechanical systems, uh, continuous exterior insulation, uh, motion sensor activated lighting, uh, lowflow plumbing fixtures, uh, and low VOCC paints and adhesives. Um, benefits of a plan unit development. Uh again, we're uh designing a project that's family oriented units. >> 75% of those units are two bedrooms or larger. 35% of those are actually threebedrooms. Um sustainable design again, Energy Star, and uh we're also planning to have some EV charging stations that will be for the residents, Scott. and then uh workforce housing uh the median income uh family in Newport uh will qualify for the housing as well. So, um, you know, and I think just I said this, I think last time when we had, you know, the workshop, but, you know, I think this will be a good, you know, improvement to the overall housing stock in Newport because as these newer projects are built, um, that are workforce housing that are built to a class A standard, it kind of helps raise the bar a bit for other landlords that own, you know, apartment buildings that frankly maybe have deferred maintenance to kind of raise the the bar a little bit. So, um, and with that, I'm happy to answer, you know, any questions that you guys have. >> So, Council Member Sumar, >> once again, what do you do for, um, um, qualifying tenants and how do you deal with troublesome tenants? >> Yeah. So, that's a great question. So, um, we do have a rigorous screening process. You know, we have, um, we have a compliance department in house at Real Estate Equities that handles all the processing of all the applications. Um, you know, we do a rigorous background check to pre-qualify residents both from an income standpoint and from a background standpoint. Um, and I'd say, you know, at these projects, you know, it's a pretty thorough vetting process, frankly, in terms of the percentage of potential residents that actually apply versus the percentage that that do end up qualifying. Um when we have problematic residents, you know, we have policies and procedures in place that deal with uh you know, evictions obviously depending on the situation with the resident. Um we try to keep very open communication with local police departments um and things of that nature. Um between kind of a steady flow of communication between our on-site management staff as well of our well as well as the regional kind of property managers that oversee um the property as well. So we have um you know kind of a lot of different you know policies and procedures in place to kind of handle a lot of those things and if you want more detail on any of that I'm happy to get you any information from our management company to provide to you. >> Um so hopefully that answers your question. >> Is that helpful? >> Was that helpful? >> It's a good start. Yeah. >> Okay. >> Other questions uh for real estate equities. This is the apartment building. I guess you know I like I like numbers and demographics. So I mean you know you're talking about family oriented. Do you have an idea of >> how many residents per unit you would typically expect in apartment like with this mixture portfolio? I mean just as far as like how many let's say children under 18. Do you have a do you have a sense of what you get on that with these with this mix? >> You know >> I know that's I know that's given there's more two and threebedroom units. you know, we definitely have more families, you know, that live at these projects. In terms of fair housing, like legally we can allow two, you know, renters per bedroom. Um, I would say, you know, um, we've built a number of these projects, frankly, throughout the metro. Um, and many of them have been suburban projects, and many of them have had a very similar unit mix to what we're proposing here. Um and um you know the age ranges vary greatly. Obviously younger families that are moving into these projects have younger kids that you know have a pretty wide range of ages. Um so I think uh I don't know that perfectly answered your question. >> I mean you know I was I didn't know if you have any more >> like any data specific to like >> Yeah. I mean, if I don't know, it just it's more expected. But I mean, one thing I'm very interested in is our school in town is enrollment is historically been on the low side. And >> it's one of the reasons I've been supportive of this project is because it it is >> family oriented. And so I think that's important that we do projects that will help bolster that. So that's just I mean, >> yeah, obviously we'll we'll find out more when we it's like we'll see when the bus when the bus pulls up in a couple years, start doing some counting, but And I guess I guess a separate you know and I haven't really I get I'm also involved in the Red Rock Corridor Commission which does a lot of transit thinking about transit in this area and have you thought at all about transit needs for this? I mean it's something that hasn't really come up there but >> residents have you residents demand for like maybe some other similar suburban ones. Have you seen a demand for transit in the in these facilities if it's available or not or >> I mean that's part of you know guess >> but we also have not just this is obviously isolated in one sense in new Newport but we also see Woodberry's proposing a pretty significant amount too and I don't know if there's been conversations it seems to be something that you know maybe you're you know going forward as we get as we work these things out might be some discussion to have too but I just wondering from your experience what you've Yeah. >> No, that's a great question. I mean, the uh this probably hits on the parking ratio, too, that I could kind of speak to as well. I think uh >> you know, at our projects, you know, the the reality is is a lot of folks are still driving vehicles, right? >> Um now, we have developed some projects that have had more of a transit oriented component. Um you know, whether they're near like a, you know, like a transit stop like Minnesota Valley Transit Authority or something like that. um which I would say is definitely a a really positive benefit to the resident base that does live in our building because there are some folks that use public transit. Um but a lot of folks are still driving vehicles. I think you know from our standpoint if there's a way to figure out um you know any kind of public transit element with you know bus transit and I don't know that we've really you know discussed that too in depth frankly. Um, you know, our parking ratio is pretty large at this project. I think it's a 1.9 or slightly above 1.9 and that's actually higher than we've done at a lot of our projects. We're generally in the 17 to8 parking ratio. So, I definitely feel com comfortable and confident that the overall ratio is is good uh for the project. Um, you know, in terms of like figuring out other, you know, public transit options for residents, I uh I don't know that I have a a perfect answer for that. >> Maybe our staff can keep think put that in their back of their minds as they're working with the county and other partners going forward because it's it's it's the longer term. It's a long term. I know you don't have any on the spot here. I just getting >> Yeah. And if I mean if it's a typical bus line, it becomes a Met Council like a numbered line like our 345. But if it it's a micro bus that really falls to the county and it's it's probably worthwhile >> as the conversations with them about the Bailey Road reconstruction happens is how are they going to service, >> you know, not just this building but multiple buildings along that road and that they need to start thinking about that now and not when people are moving in and going, "How am I going to get to work?" >> Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> Mayor Council, if I might just Yeah. So, transit service sometimes is like a little bit chicken and egg as you might know. And so, in this case, um you've got one project that's imminently proposed, other projects likely down the line in the city of Woodbury. I think that continued coordination hearing you here, uh definitely will continue to coordinate with the county and others. >> Yeah. Um, so you talked about the 1.9 and I kind of talked a little bit about what's the plan if there are not enough parking spots on site because they they're not going to be able to park on Bailey >> Road and I don't know that those other side roads are going to be parking or no parking um that north south on the east side of Quick Trip or the north side of the property line if that's up going to Yeah, mayor and council, just to answer the question, there would not be parking allowed on the side roads. Those would be mostly for commercial traffic >> because one of the things with Newport Commons, which has fewer parking spaces, I asked the question when they proposed that, what do you do when if you need more parking? And their answer was, we own the property going west of there and we can expand parking underneath the power lines for additional parking spaces. So they had and they have a plan should they they need more parking. But I I don't know what you're going to do. >> I think this is I mean I don't know this is something though that I mean this is part of a debate in urban planning and about there are some cities talking about getting rid of parking minimums period. And it's just, you know, I think you see some of the terrible I mean, this is just a commentary, but some of the terrible parking excesses in some areas of some of the suburbs parking lot like outside some grocery store. I mean, it's just it's parking isn't free and there is it is a constraint, you know, and it's like it is something that we don't want to supply and excess either just out of precaution because it does damage. It puts it in impervious. So I think you know this is a pretty significant amount of you know the bigger you know if I don't know so I'm just I know you're concerned but I'm also concerned about the idea that of you know the other direction I think has a lot of negatives >> because of because of the the you know let's you know it's not free it's >> and I understand what you're saying about the bigger chain grocery stores but you know Trader Joe's that I've not been in a Trader Joe's parking lot that hasn't been really difficult to a navigate and b find a parking spot. there there's just there's not enough there or you're you know if they're part of a more mall type strip mall type complex you know you're parking down by another business and walking and getting your groceries and so um yes there are certain places where there's excess parking but I don't really want someone coming into Newport and then going well shoot we've got to move because there's you know we can park one car car underground and the other one's got to go outside and they're going to come to us first. They're not going to call you. >> They're going to come to us to solve the problem >> and they're going to say, "Why did you allow them to do this?" And so to me, it's like I'm actually fine with the numbers that's being proposed. I just want to know that there's some thought on what if we need 20 more extra spots, you know, what are what are some options uh that we can make available? >> Yeah. No, I mean it's a I understand the question and I think it's a it's a very good question. I mean I think you know for us you know the the overall planning right between Quick Trip the apartment site and the industrial you know it's pretty it's it's pretty tight right? >> Yeah. >> Um and we've really done our best to really max out you know the parking options on the surface as well as underground and and also create some enhanced you know green space and walkable trails and some outdoor amenities too. So >> the, you know, the reality is there's not really, um, there's not really an option to add parking on site. >> Um, so the, you know, I don't really have, uh, an option to have more enhanced parking. But what I would say, again, just to reiterate, is that the 1.9 ratio, which we've designed here, >> Yeah. >> is is higher, frankly, than any project that I can think of that we've designed that Cass Wilson has designed for us, too. and and we found that in other similar suburban locations where we've designed these kinds of projects that we haven't had parking limitations or issues. Um so I mean I think from our standpoint at least like we're comfortable um with the ratio. We think it's sufficient um but we don't really have like additional land you know that we could add another 20 parking stalls or something >> um because it's just it's not available unfortunately. on these other projects where you've done the 1.7 ratio, have you had where a majority of the housing is two and three bedrooms? >> Yeah. Yeah. Frankly, all of our projects are designed, you know, this unit mix is very similar to what we've designed for our last handful of projects. Okay. >> Um we've done at least 75% two and threebedroom units and >> almost every project that I can remember over the last eight years. >> Okay. Um, and that parking ratio has been right around 17 to >> Yeah. >> You know, at the highest maybe 18. Um, and it's worked just fine. >> Okay, that's helpful. >> Yeah. So, hopefully that's gives you some comfort with it. >> Great. Thank you. Other council member Sumar, >> what do you propose as rental prices for the different units? >> Uh, good question. So, um, the units are going to be restricted to on average 60% of the area median income. Um, so the max rents that we can charge for one bedroom units are right around um, and this is I don't have the exact rent to the decimal in front of me right now, so I apologize for that. Um, but it's around $1,400 for a onebedroom. It's around 1,700 for a two-bedroom, and it's I think just at around three or 2,000 for a threebedroom. Um, so and again I'm probably off by $10 give or take on the actual exact rents, but those are the max rents that we're allowed to charge >> an average I should say of the max rents >> that are reasonably based on your experience and your proposals. >> Yeah, >> they're good enough for right now. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Other questions for real estate equities and Alex. Okay. Well, Scott, do you want to talk a little bit about Quick Trip? >> Well, I don't usually have much to say. >> Um, Madame Mayor, members of the council, I'm honored to be here with our first store in Newport. Um, Joe says we're going to have another one someplace, but we'll we'll see. Um I I gave you all a lot of the little history of of Quick Trip. Um just recently we were awarded the seventh year in a row by USA Today the best convenience store chain in the United States. >> So we're pretty proud of that. >> Congratulations. >> And thank you. There's a there's another award that none nobody in the room here has ever heard of. It's called the Black Pearl Award. And here we're just a little convenience store. Well, little. We got 920 stores. Um, we were given this Black Pearl Award as the safest food service company in the world. >> Wow. >> One one award per year in the world. Came to Quickrip this year. >> Wow. >> It's it's it's a pretty big honor. Uh, so so we're we're mighty proud. um our our little company that started in Wisconsin in 1965 has come started with one store and most of our growth has been one store at a time. Uh we're 900 pushing 930 stores now. Um some some interesting numbers. Uh Wisconsin's got about 520. Minnesota's got about 220. Iowa's got 152. Oh, I was going to tell a Viking joke, but I'll let it go. U, Illinois has two and Michigan has eight stores. South Dakota has a dozen stores and we're now in North Dakota and uh we have two stores in North Dakota. One little thing that I'm working on. I I hate to digress like this, but it's too much fun to not. We're working down in the little corner of Iowa, Sous City, Iowa. It's where South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa all come together. three corners here. So, we're working on properties in all three of those little towns. Now, we don't have a store in Nebraska, so it' be our first one. But my goal to our real estate guy down there is I want to open three stores in three states on one day. >> Good for you. >> So, stay tuned. It probably won't happen, but I I always like to have have a little fun. Um, one thing I want to tell about Quick Trip and is why we're a little bit different and hopefully with our project here, we'll create a little more parking space at Trader Joe's. Um, but one thing that makes Quick Trip very very different is we have 39,000 co-workers. We'll be next time I'm here it probably be 40,000. Um, but we give 40% of the profit that the company makes back to our workers, the people that do all the work and really make the money for us. So, what does that mean? Last year, that coworker got about 15%. Say their W2 is 50,000. They got 15% of that 50, another $6,500 as a cash bonus. 7500 >> and then they got five% of that W2 amount got put into the retirement plan. So they basically got 20% over and above their regular pay and the regular pay is at market or above and tremendous benefits. Our people work hard and they deserve the pay. But it's it's why why the customer gets treated a little bit better at Quick Trip because those co-workers behind the counter, they're they're owners. 40% of what they sell is theirs. Somebody's eating a donut in the back room, they say, "Alex, knock it off." 40% of that donut's mine. Um, so, uh, the one thing I wanted to point out with this with the site plan is other, one other thing I should say is I said we're we're really honored to be part of a three partner development here in this little section. You can't find three better companies to work together than United Properties, Real Estate Equities, and Quick Trip. I'll tell you, I just don't know where a development like this could be could draw three better companies together in one little unit. This is going to be a just a gorgeous, phenomenal development. Um, one thing about the access, our cars will come in here, they'll circulate out, and they'll probably go out here. Some will go out here. The trucks will all come in here, circulate, and go around. Now, this these two diesel lanes are it's not for semis. There'll be a semi in there once in a while, but the semis are not going to want to go here. They want to go to South St. Paul and we can take care of them there. Um, this is going to be we also sell, we call it a diesel island, but we also sell wreck fuel that people will put in their boats and their lawnmowers and that kind of stuff. They don't want to use the ethanol product. So, this also will service this for the most part is going to be local diesel traffic, smaller vehicles. It's it's not a truck stop. And will there be a semi in there once in a while? Sure, there will, but um they they don't want to go into places like this. It's they're not going to come off the freeway to come to this facility. Um, we we've done as best as best we can screening here to screen uh for the residents here. Alex will probably do something on here. I don't know what his client is. Um, but these are going to be our best customers. >> So, we're going to treat them if they ask us for something, we'll probably give it to them. >> So, we we respond to our customers. our our chain, our chart of accounts, our chart of organization chart has the customer on the top, the co-workers in the middle, and owners on the bottom. So, our boss is the customer. Any questions for me, >> Council Member Sumar? >> I certainly am aware that you're going to be looking at those residents as potential employees, too. So, >> very, very, very possible. customers and employees. >> Yeah. We we expect we'll have 40 to 50 co-workers here. >> Yeah. >> And uh roughly 60% of them will be part-time. >> So the other 40% will be full-time. >> Great jobs. Great jobs. >> I got one for >> Amazing. >> Council member Ingramman, >> you're not a you're not a >> I don't need one. home. >> Well, and I I agree with you. I think, you know, as a community, we're very fortunate to have three very unique projects coming into this small portion of land. That's not just housing. It's not just jobs. It's, you know, it's all of these things are coming in combined along with the aspects of a convenience store and a gas station. and we don't have a grocery nearby. And so, you know, I'm sure there's people who wonder why a little variance here and there on a on a shore land or, you know, on a lot coverage and some of those things, but it's it's really because we understand and are looking at the bigger picture of what this brings into our community. And I just, you know, I think we're really fortunate to have something with so many different components that are going to bring so many different types of things for us along, you know, with some additional housing. And we know the metro area is there's an awful lot of talk about housing. So, >> one last thing about our our history is we come into this business from the grocery end of it. We were we're kind of an offshoot of Gateway Foods of grocery distributors. Rainbow Foods was our sister corporation at one time and uh so that's why you're going to come here instead of going to Trader Joe's. >> Our prices are better. We'll have more parking for you and our c and our co-workers will treat you better. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much, Scott. Council member Schmidt, >> so more of more of a a flow pattern thing, but you guys have a car wash, I believe I saw on the renderings. Um, could you >> The car wash is right here >> and the entrance >> the stacking will be over here. >> Okay. >> They'll come out through here. So, the noise is always on the blower end of the car wash. Y >> these residents won't know that there's a car wash there. >> Perfect. You were prepped for that question. Okay. So, that was first. And then second is the outflow of that traffic. Is it going to go on the south side on the bottom part of your diagram or is it going to go up to the top? >> The car wash traffic. >> Yeah. The exiting from the car wash traffic. Because that >> the car wash customer will come out here and typically go back out here. >> Got it. Okay. >> Probably go here. He they can go out here, but they they don't like to be mixed up with the bigger vehicles either. So, we we we always try to keep the the semis or the the larger the diesel vehicles separated from the cars. This does a good job. They'll be both on this little stretch here, but >> Okay. >> Yeah. I'm just thinking through the flow because I go to the South St. Paul Quick Trip frequently. >> This won't be a zoo like that. >> Next question. >> That's a zoo. >> Thank you so much. Yeah, >> we're we're working to take a little pressure off that one, too. >> This will help a little bit. >> Along with Yeah, >> thank all of you so much tonight for attending and um sharing some information about your projects and answering our questions. Um what we have now before the council is actually 10 different um ordinances and resolutions that we will probably move fairly quickly through. I don't think there's any objections to uh what staff is uh got in those. So um our uh city planner has got the motions the five motions up here for the business park. Um so starting with ordinance 20264 um can I have a motion and a reading of that part? I mean, I would like to have just a little more opportunity for just discussion before we >> You have more questions or >> Well, I wanted to say, you know, and this is not just some small development. We're pushing through here and it's just kind of like >> I mean, we're on the back end of this and I just kind of wanted to, you know, put a little context in for I think the residents. You know, I think one of the things that's been a challenge in getting this project through is that it probably hasn't gone like I envisioned it. You know, we had a plan last time. We talked about a we're going to develop a master plan three communities and this isn't that you know you kind of see we have we've had instead of a master plan is we've had a lot of cooperation and I think the heart you know and it's like the county the road piece which is everybody's concern is there's conversations but it isn't the answers right now and I think that's the the hard thing is we're kind of putting an element of trust in this whole process you know that we as a council to allow this to proceed. I mean I think and that's and I know I know that's going to be it's a little uncomfortable for me. I'm going to support the project, but it's just I know a lot of our residents concerns aren't answered yet, even as we vote to improve this to approve this. And so, I just want to acknowledge that those residents, especially south of Bailey, I mean, they're going to be tremendously impacted by this project. And we they've barely been part of this discussion other than showing up at the meeting. So, I think we we owe it to them moving forward to try to find, you know, solutions to their needs, not just the needs of the three developers here tonight, you know, three development group development groups. So, I think there's a lot of questions about these intersections. We focused on what's north of the what's north these intersections. We haven't barely talked about what's south of these intersections and how it's going to impact. And so, I think there's a lot of, you know, challenges there. Um, and I just I just kind of wanted to to acknowledge that, you know, as we're doing this. This is, you know, this this project, you know, it's taking a lot to get here, a lot of cooperation, but that it is there all the answers aren't there. So, but I'm gonna still be in support of it. So, >> okay. With that, do I have a motion to approve ordinance 202604? >> I'll move that 20 2604. >> Okay. And will you read the top motion on the screen there? >> Move to adopt ordinance 20 26-04 approving the planned unit development standards for the Bailey business park development with the findings of fact and conditions therein. Second. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Ingamman. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The ordinance is adopted. >> Do I have a motion on the next resolution? >> I'll move to adopt resolution 202641 approving the preliminary plat and planned unit development for the Bailey business park project proposed by United Properties with the findings of fact and conditions therein. I'll second that one. >> Have a motion from council member Schmidt and a second from council member Sumner. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed the resolution is adopted. Resolution number 2026-42 approving the conditional use permit requested by United Properties for commercial and industrial uses in the Shoreland Overline lay with the findings of fact and conditions therein. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Sumner and a second from council member Ingamman. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. >> Those opposed. The resolution is adopted. >> I'll move to adopt resolution 2026-43 approving the variances requested by United Properties to imperous surface maximums in the shoreland overlay district with the findings of fact and conditions therein. >> I'll second. >> So have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Schmidt. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Those opposed. >> The resolution is adopted. >> Want to take the next one? >> I'll move to adopt resolution 202644 approving summary publication of ordinance 20264. >> Second. >> I have a motion from council member Schmidt and a second from council member Sumar. Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed. The resolution is adopted. Moving on, the next um set of motions is for the apartment building and the quick trip. Um, >> I'll I'll move uh resolution move to adopt resolution uh 26 05 approving the reszoning and plan unit development standards for Bailey Road multifamily and gas station development uh with the findings of fact and conditions therein. Second. >> I have a motion from council member Ingamman and a second from council member Schmidt. Any discussion? >> Well, it's an ordinance, not a >> I'm sorry. An ordinance or an ordinance? >> Just correct that. >> Any discussion? >> All those in favor say I. I. >> I. Those opposed. The ordinance is adopted. I'll move to adopt resolution 202645 approving the preliminary plat and planned unit development for the Bailey Road multif family and gas station project proposed by real estate equities with the findings of fact and conditions therein. >> Second. >> I have a motion from council member Schmidt and a second from council member Sumar. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. >> I. >> I didn't hear very many eyes. So those opposed the resolution is adopted. Move to adopt resolution 2026-46 approving the conditional use permit requested by real estate equities for a residential PUD and commercial use in the shoreland overlaying district with the findings of fact and conditions therein. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Ingamman. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Those opposed. The resolution is adopted. >> Move to adopt ordinate to adopt resolution in this instance 2026-47 approving the variances requested by real estate equities to standards of the shoreland overlay district with the findings of fact and conditions therein. >> I'll second. >> I have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Ingamman. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I. >> I. Those opposed. >> The resolution is adopted. >> Move to adopt resolution 26-48 approving summary publication of ordinance 26-05. >> Second. >> I have a motion from council member Ingamman and a second from council member Sumner. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. I I those opposed the resolution is adopted. Thank you councel. Um and thank you also uh for coming and attending and sharing information about the project. >> Thank you all. >> Okay. So moving on, we have another administrative item on our agenda. >> Mayor, members of the council, we do have a uh bluff ordinance definition change. This came about during I believe the Eastridge Heights review and uh I think Nathan is pulling up his memo to begin the discussion now. >> Great. Uh thanks Minister Hatch. So yes uh we have a proposed ordinance amendment. I do not have a presentation for you. Uh no 40 slide PowerPoint here. So, u in a nutshell, uh the city adopted new, uh a new unified definitions section, uh for its zoning ordinance in January of this year. As part of that, what we were doing is looking through all of our definitions in the zoning ordinance and making sure that we could, you know, have just one definition for each term. What that need required us to do was to basically take instances where we had multiple definitions and combine them into one. This was one of those examples. Uh we were combining the shoreland definition and the MRCCA, the Minnesota, sorry, Mississippi River critical corridor act definition. And so these are basically two DNR required definitions. We picked one. They prefer the other. They communicated that to us and uh that's why we are here this evening uh proposing an ordinance that will slightly modify the definition of a bluff. Uh this this modification will make the definition of a bluff slightly more strict. In other words, it will include slightly more area. Um the way that the math works out, this is really only going to impact existing properties where there are already established bluffs. If you don't have a bluff on your property, you are likely not impacted by by this. So really, that's that's the whole thing. Um the the ordinance that's attached with this which is ordinance uh 2026 is amending the bluff definition according to our conversation with the DNR. >> Questions for uh Nathan on this at all? >> Well, how about if I >> council member Sar if I make the motion and then we have the discussions? >> Certainly. >> I'll move ordinance number 2026-06 amending the bluff definition. and I would like to ask him a few questions on that. >> Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Okay. So, I have a motion from Council Member Sumar and a second from Council Member Ingamman. Discussion. Council member Sumar, >> how much is this going to impact homeowners? Is it going to be along the the river primarily or is it going to be on the east side of >> This is a That's a great question. >> Deeper bluffs are >> This definition will apply to all bluffs in the city. So, if you have a bluff on your property, then you are potentially impacted, but when we talk about potential impacts, I think they're likely to be pretty minimal. Um, based on this change in the definition, you might have the top of the bluff line, which is really the the primary thing that we focus on in regulation, that will move potentially in some cases slightly, I guess, in towards the, you know, further towards the top. >> Um, I I think that's likely to be pretty limited. It will be context specific. There are some situations where there might be no change. It really depends on the topography on a certain property. Yes, >> we've we've approved and we have under construction a couple of developments up on um the the Highlands up here and is that going to impact anything that's already underway? >> It won't impact anything that's underway. >> Okay. Um, >> then we've got homeowners I remember discussions that are on the river and if they want to make adjustments to their yard or something, this is potentially going to impact them in the future. So, uh, bluffs and steep slopes also have protections. And so, if you have a bluff on what's now a bluff on your property, it would have likely have been a steep slope before. And so, it would still have had those same vegetation removal protections. Uh we also have protections uh for the top of bluff as you well know now uh in that area we also kind of closely you know monitor any changes. >> Is this going to impact the development uh on the north end of town? >> No >> off of Bailey because that's already occurring. >> It's already approved. It's already occurring and I would I would say that you know we staff uh went out there and did a field visit earlier this week just to walk the bluff and understand what it looks like. Uh generally that bluff is is not particularly severe at the top of bluff boundary. It gets a little bit more severe as you get further into the actual bluff area, but uh the top of bluff is, you know, it's um >> it makes sense. >> It's not going to restrict the project that they've already >> No, >> develop proposed. >> Okay, those are my questions. >> Okay, other questions. Okay, I have a motion and a second on the floor. All those in favor say I. >> I. I those opposed the ordinance is adopted. >> Resolution number 2026-49 summary publication of ordinance number 2026 that we just discussed >> second somebody >> second. >> So I have a motion from council member Sumar and a second from council member Schmidt for the summary publication. Any discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. Those opposed, the resolution um is adopted. Uh we'll move on to mayor and council reports. Just a couple things. I wanted to remind people that you got your uh spring newsletter a couple of weeks ago or a month ago. Um in the newsletter on the back side is the coupon for the one bulky item that you can take for free over the recycling and energy center. And um let me see which way is the camera. Here we go. Um over to the recycling and energy center. It's the coupon down here. This is a Newport residentonly program. And so, um, they've got a long list of things they'll take, mattresses and appliances and stuff like that. So, feel free to take advantage of that. We also have Pioneer Day coming up on August 7th and 8th. If you're interested in volunteering for that, um, you can check out the city website. There's a link over to the Pioneer Day website. They've got the um 5K again, the fun run and other things that you can do if you're interested. So, feel free to do that as well. And we had our summer summer family fun night last night. They had some games and kids and um I think everybody had a good time uh who was there. Council member Ingramman, >> I have nothing to know. >> Council member Taylor, >> nothing. >> Council member Schmidt, >> nothing. Council member Sumar, >> I did attend in person the recycling and energy center meeting this month and I also attended the library committee meeting and there's lots of activities for adults and kids that are going on at our library. It's a wonderful place to be. There's programs outlined in the handout and there's continuing to be volunteer opportunities at the library. >> Thank you. >> With that, I'll take a motion to adjurnn. >> I'll make that move. Second. >> I'll take a mo. Thank you. I have a motion from council member Ingramman and a second from council member Sumar. All those in favor say I. >> I. Those opposed. Thank you for watching. We are adjourned.