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AGENDA
Planning Commission Work Session
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
6:30 p.m.
City Council Chambers, City Hall
PLANNING COMMISSION WORK SESSION
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN DISCUSSION
a. Chapter 1 – Executive Summary and Guiding Principles
b. Chapter 2 – Community Context
c. Housing Discussion
d. General Project Update
e. Community Meeting Discussion
3. ADJOURNMENT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Planning Commission Meeting: September 13, 2016
AGENDA ITEM: Comprehensive Plan 2040 Discussion AGENDA SECTION:
Work Session
PREPARED BY: Kyle Klatt, Senior Planner AGENDA NO. 2a/b/c
ATTACHMENTS: Draft Comprehensive Plan Chapters 1 and 2 APPROVED BY:
RECOMMENDED ACTION: No action required
COMP PLAN UPDATE DISCUSSION
The Planning Commission is being asked to review some initial drafts of the first two chapters of the 2040
Comprehensive Plan with Staff at its next workshop session. These two chapters include an updated list
of the City’s 10 overarching goals (guiding principles) for the Plan, along with some general community
background information and data that will be used to help guide the other various elements of the plan.
This information represents an update to the information included in the 2030 planning document. Staff
will continue to refine these sections while drafting other aspects of the plan, and the included information
should be viewed as an early draft that will be subject to changes and refinements in the future.
Staff is also starting to work on the housing element within the Plan, and will bring some information
concerning housing projections and the City’s requirements for affordable housing to the meeting.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff is looking for input from the Commissioners concerning the draft sections. Because the meeting is a
work session, no action is required.
Rosemount 2040 Comprehensive Plan Chapter 1 – Executive Summary
CHAPTER 1: EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
PLANNING PROCESS
GUIDING PRINCIPLES
The City Council charged the Planning Commission (with important help from the other City
committees, commissions, and the public) to create the Comprehensive Plan. To guide the creation
of the Comprehensive Plan, the City Council determined nine guiding principles.
TEN GUIDING PRINCIPLES
1) Maintain a manageable and reasonable growth rate that does not adversely impact the
delivery of services but allows the community to grow and become more diverse from now
until 2040. Provide multiple development opportunity areas to ensure that reasonable
development goals can be achieved and are not dependent upon any one landholder.
2) Preserve existing rural residential areas designated in the Comprehensive Plan and increase
housing opportunities in the community to attain a balance of life cycle housing options,
with special attention to changing community demographics and the demands of the
increasing senior and millennium population.
3) Promote commercial renewal and rehabilitation in the Downtown and along Highway 42
while attracting new commercial development along County Highway 42 at key intersections:
Hwy 3, Akron Avenue, and US Hwy 52.
4) Encourage additional high quality, job creating and tax base generating general industrial and
business park development in the northeast portion of the community and within the
Rosemount Business Park.
5) Preserve natural resources and open space within the community and ensure development
does not adversely impact on-going agricultural uses until urban services are available.
6) Incorporate sustainability precepts into development decision to move toward a more
resilient community.
7) Collaborate and provide connections between the City and surrounding cities, townships,
Dakota County and public and private schools in the area.
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8) Work with the University of Minnesota to create a development that can successfully
integrate into the community while achieving goals of job creation, healthy living, energy
conservation, and public education.
9) Collaborate with partners and provide services and community amenities that benefit all
residents.
10) Collaborate with appropriate agencies to identify transit corridors and bring additional transit
opportunities into the community.
PUBLIC REVIEW SUMMARY
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CHAPTER 2: COMMUNITY CONTEXT
ROSEMOUNT HISTORY
EARLY HISTORY
The first settler of European ancestry was William Strathen who arrived in the Rich Valley of
Rosemount in 1853 and claimed land within the northeast quarter of Section 13, which is located by
the present day Flint Hills Refinery. Other settlers followed. The first religious service being
conducted in 1854 by Reverend Kidder. Andrew Keegan, a surveyor , was the first postmaster 1855.
In 1857, the Rich Valley post office was established, with C.H. Carr serving as postmaster.
In 1858, the Board of County Commissioners official designated Township 115 North, Range 19
West (the portion of the present City located west of US Highway 52) by the name Rosemount.
The portion of the present City east of US Highway 52 was annexed by an act of legislation in 1871.
The name Rosemount was chosen to honor a village in Ireland. A small school was also constructed
in 1858.
In the 1860’s, 52 men served in the Civil War. The Village of Rosemount was formally platted in
1866 by James A. Case and in 1867 the first grain elevator was constructed by the railroad.
The Village of Rosemount was incorporated in 1875 and the first town hall was constructed a year
later.
The 1880’s saw the Village of Rosemount became a viable business area. Many businesses opened
and 2 story brick buildings were built. In 1881, Rosemount erected the first gas street lamps in the
Downtown area.
The first school district building was built is 1896 and
taught grades 1 through 8. In 1918, the first high
school was built and taught grades 1 through 12. In
1922, the school had 50 high school students and
began a football program. The high school building
still exists today and is a part of the Rosemount
Middle School complex on the northwest corner of
143rd Street West and South Robert Trail. Dakota
County Technical College opened 1970 with the first
graduating class in 1971.
20TH CENTURY
With WWII in full swing, the War Department of the federal government, in 1942, acquired 11,500
acres of farmland within Rosemount and Empire Township for the construction of the Gopher
Ordnance Works. The plant was built to produce white smokeless gunpowder.
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At the end of the war, the government found the ordnance work unnecessary and sold some of the
property to farmers, but the majority of the property was sold to the University of Minnesota for
research. The property is currently called UMore Park, and is still owned and managed by the
University. More recently, the University completed planning work for the property that culminated
in the preparation of an environmental review of various development options for the site. There is
no established time frame for development of the property, and the City recently approved a long
term interim use on the land to allow mineral and gravel extraction over a large portion of the site.
As a municipality at the edge of the Twin Cities metropolitan area, Rosemount has continued to see
strong interest in residential construction as development has spread out from the central cities of
Minneapolis and St. Paul. Its close proximity to goods and services within the region, excellent
school system, and plentiful job opportunities has driven demand for housing that has been
relatively constant over the last several decades. This growth has occurred while large areas within
Rosemount have remained rural in character.
ROSEMOUNT BUSINESSES
Rosemount has a long and successful business history. The First State Bank of Rosemount was
granted a charter in 1909. Rosemount Engineering was established in 1955 as a result of the
aeronautical research conducted at the University research facilities. Rosemount Engineering first
made total temperature sensors and eventually additional aeronautical components. Rosemount
Engineering first relocated to Bloomington, then was renamed to Rosemount Inc. and it now
operates worldwide. Brockway Glass, which was located east of South Robert Trail between
Connemara Trail and Bonaire Path, began operation in 1961, but closed in 1984. The Harmony
subdivision now exists at the former Brockway Glass site.
Great Northern Oil Refinery began construction in 1954 and began operation in September of 1955
at an operating capacity of 25,000 barrels per day. The refinery was purchased by Koch Industries
in 1969 and renamed Flint Hills Resources in 2002. The crude oil processing capacity of the refinery
in 2007 was about 320,000 barrels per day. The facility primarily refines Canadian crude into
petroleum products such as gasoline, diesel, propane and butane.
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MUNICIPAL GOVERNANCE
The Township and Village of Rosemount merged in 1971 and the City Hall was moved to the 1300
block of 145th Street East, directly north of the Dakota County Technical College. In 1972, the first
Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Ordinance were adopted. In 1975, Rosemount became a statutory
city with a mayor-council form of government. In 1987, the current City Hall at 2875 145th Street
West was constructed and in 1992, the Rosemount Community Center/National Guard Armory was
built.
ROSEMOUNT POPULATION AND RESIDENT DEMOGRAPHICS
POPULATION AND HOUSEHOLDS
The City of Rosemount has experienced continual growth throughout its history as urban
development has expanded outward from the downtown area and eastern edge of the City. The
City nearly doubled its population from 1990 to 2000, and added a similar number of households
between the years of 2000 to 2010.
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The expected population for 2040 is 38,000, or roughly 15,000 more persons than the City’s
estimated number of 23,044 in 2016.
TABLE 2.1: POPULATION
a Combined Rosemount Village and Rosemount Township populations
b City of Rosemount forecast
Rosemount has experienced several periods of rapid growth throughout its history, most notably in
the 1980’s and late 1990’s. More recently, the City, like most within the Twin Cities metropolitan
area, saw a decrease in housing and construction activity with the economic downturn of the late
2000’s. As a result of these changes, the growth that was expected to occur between 2020 and 2030
under the City’s previous plan has been pushed back to 2040 and slightly lowered. These updated
projections are as the basis for the City’s updated MUSA boundary and the other projections used
throughout this plan.
POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS
The population of Rosemount is predominately young families. Table 2.2 shows that slightly less
than one third of the population is between 25 and 44, with an additional one quarter of the
population being school aged children. The population of retirement age is a small proportion of
the City at approximately 7.7%, but their percentage of the overall population has been increasing
over the past three decades and is expected to increase over time as the existing population ages.
This trend is shown by their share of the population increasing by 2.3% during the 2000’s.
One age group that is consistently lower than the others is the number of college age adults within
the community. One factor that causes this characteristic is the lack of four-year colleges in the area.
High school students who graduate from Rosemount often leave the area to attend college. This is a
concern to Rosemount if these young adults do not return to Rosemount after attending college.
This trend is commonly referred to as a “brain drain” because the bright students taught at
Rosemount High School end up living in other communities without returning the benefit of their
quality education to the community.
These population trends are common of a growing suburban community.
Year Population Households Growth Rate
1900 807 a
1950 1,375 a
1960 2,012 a 31.7%
1970 4,034 a 1,025 50.1%
1980 5,083 1,456 20.6%
1990 8,622 2,779 41.0%
2000 14,619 4,742 41.0%
2010 21,874 7,587 33.2%
2020 25,900 b 9,300 15.5%
2030 31,700 b 11,600 18.3%
2040 38,000 b 14,000 16.6%
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TABLE 2.2: AGE GROUPS
Age Group 1990 2000 2010
Under 5 Years Old 939 10.9% 1,380 9.4% 1,711 7.8%
School Age (5-17) 2,026 23.5% 3,751 25.6% 5,010 22.9%
College Age (18-24) 808 9.4% 914 6.3% 1,460 6.7%
Young Workers (25-44) 3,266 37.9% 5,332 36.5% 6,492 29.7%
Mature Workers (45-
64)
1,230 14.3% 2,458 16.8% 5,514 25.2%
Retired and Semi-
retired (65 and Older)
353 4.1% 784 5.4% 1,687 7.7%
Total Population 8,622 100% 14,619 100% 21,874 100%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Insert: Age/Sex Chart
Rosemount is a community of young families, as shown in Table 2.3 by its high average persons per
household. In 2010, Rosemount’s households averaged 3.08 persons per household, while in
comparison Dakota County averaged 2.60 and Minnesota averaged 2.48 persons per household. As
Rosemount’s population ages, the average person per household is expected to decline, but the
number is expected to remain higher than average as long as Rosemount remains a growing
community.
TABLE 2.3: PERSONS PER HOUSEHOLD
1990 2000 2010
Population in Households 8,613 14,609 21,852
Total Households 2,779 4,742 7,587
Average Persons per
Household
3.10 3.08 2.88
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Table 2.4 shows that a large number of Rosemount’s households have children with over 46% of
households having children residing in the homes. This number is lower than the amount in 2000
when 52% of households that had children residing in the homes. This figure is expected to
continue to decline over time as the population ages and children grow up and move out to start
their own families, but households with children will likely remain a significant portion of the
population.
TABLE 2.4: HOUSEHOLD TYPE
Household Type Total Number of
Households
Households with
Children
Households without
Children
2000 2010 2000 2010 2000 2010
Families – Married 3,326 4,934 2,045 2,715 1,281 2,219
Families – Mother Only 430 679 329 465 101 214
Families – Husband Only 176 305 113 210 63 95
Total Families 3,932 5,918 2,487 3,390 1,445 2,528
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Non-Family Households 810 1,669 76 138 734 1,531
Total Households 4,742 7,587 2,563 3,528 2,179 4,059
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Insert: Pie Chart with Household Type (ACS 2014)
Add section on Race, building permit, housing age
EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT
EDUCATION LEVEL
Rosemount has a highly educated population with 19 of 20 adults having high school diplomas in
2014. This represents an increase from 1990 when 94% of adults had high school diplomas. The
number of college graduates has also increased significantly with over 4 of 10 adults having at least a
bachelor’s degree in 2014, while less than one third of adults had degrees in 1990.
TABLE 2.5: HIGHEST LEVEL OF EDUCATION1
2000 2014
No High School Diploma 508 5.9% 653 4.6%
High School Diploma 5,573 64.8% 7,494 52.8%
Bachelor’s Degree 2,000 23.3% 4,286 30.2%
Graduate or Professional Degree 518 6.0% 1,760 12.4%
1 Persons 25 years or older
Source: 2014 American Community Survey
INCOME
Rosemount residents have relatively high incomes. The median household income in 2014 was
$86,800 compared to the median Minneapolis-St. Paul 13 County MSA houseold income of $68,000.
The median Dakota County household income was also slightly lower than Rosemount’s at $75,000.
The amount of Rosemount residents with incomes below the poverty line dropped from 5.0% in
1990 to 3.3% in 2000, but then increased to 5.6% by 2014.
TABLE 2.6: INCOME
1990 2000 2014
Per Capita Income $14,931 $23,116 $34,300
Median Household Income $41,992 $65,916 $86,800
Median Family Income $43,726 $68,929 N/A
Percent of Individual below
the Poverty Line
5.0% 3.3% 5.6%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau and 2010-2014 American Community Survey
EMPLOYMENT (NEED TO UPDATE)
The amount of time that people spend in their cars traveling to work has increased. In 1990, nearly
70% of residents spent more than 15 minutes in travel time to work, with almost 30% of residents
traveling more than 30 minutes. In 2000, over 74% of residents spent more than 15 minutes in
travel time to work, with over 35% of residents traveling more than 30 minutes. Due to the
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increased congestion on roadways over the last two decades, this may not mean that Rosemount
residents are working farther from home than in the past, but may mean that it is just taking
residents longer to get to the same destination due to the increased congestion. This trend may
continue in the future as congestion is expected to increase.
The number of Rosemount residents working from home in 2000 decreased both in number and
percentage from 1990. This may partially have to do with the number of farms that have been
developed during that period because farmers typically make up a large portion of the population
who work from home. It is anticipated that the number and percentage of the population who work
from home will increase in the future due to the advances in technology that may allow people to
telecommute to work.
TABLE 2.7: TRAVEL TIME TO WORK1
1990 2000 2010
Work from Home 239 5.2% 176 2.3%
Less than 15 Minutes 1,171 25.5% 1,785 23.4%
15 to 29 Minutes 1,838 40.0% 2,949 38.6%
30 to 44 Minutes 967 21.0% 1,861 24.4%
45 Minutes or More 380 8.3% 863 11.3%
1 Persons 16 years or older
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
Add: Residence in labor force, place of employment data, and occupation
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