HomeMy WebLinkAbout6.a. Minutes of December 18, 1990 Regular Council MeetingROSEMOUNT CITY PROCEEDINGS
REGULAR MEETING
DECEMBER 18, 1990
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Rosemount was duly held on Tuesday, December 18,
1990, at 7:30 p.m. in the Council Chambers at City Hall.
Mayor Napper called the meeting to order with all members present.
Mayor Napper led the group in the Pledge of Allegiance.
MOTION by Napper to approve the Consent Agenda as presented. SECOND by
Klassen. Ayes: Willcox, Wippermann, Napper, Oxborough, Klassen. Nays:
0.
Economic Development Specialist Tracie Pechonick presented options for
providing residents city information which included continuing the current
"Rosemount City Newsletter", purchasing a page from either the "Thisweek"
or "Countryside" or purchasing a page from the proposed Rosemount newspaper
for Rosemount city news. Pechonick reviewed the positive and negative
factors associated with each of the choices and outlined the costs for each
publication. See Clerk's File 1990-40.
Council discussed the amount of staff time involved with the different
options, the costs involved and the advantages and disadvantages of
producing a weekly publication versus a monthly one. It was suggested
establishing a volunteer community information coordinator or a committee
to accumulate and prepare information for the publication. Following
further discussion Council directed staff to provide additional cost
figures which would include annual potential advertisement revenues from
developers, legal costs for minutes and public notices and brochure costs
for recreational programs.
Mayor Napper suspended the regular agenda at this time to allow the public
hearings scheduled for this time to be conducted.
Mayor Napper opened the public hearing to consider applications received
from Louie's, Incorporated for an On Sale Intoxicating Liquor License and a
Sunday On Sale Intoxicating Liquor License.
The city clerk presented for the record the Affidavit of Posted Hearing
Notice and Affidavit of Publication. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
City Clerk Susan Johnson advised applicant Louie Walsh, President of
Louie's, Incorporated applied for liquor licenses to operate a lounge at
14450 South Robert Trail. Johnson identified the premise as what is known
as "Kady's" and advised the applicant has only leased the lounge side of
the building. Johnson advised the applicant paid the required license
fees, submitted proof of liquor liability and possessed a clean criminal
record. The city clerk recommended approval of the applications subject to
the applicant receiving a certificate of occupancy on the premise from the
city building official. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
Applicant Louie Walsh was introduced to Council and informed Council of his
intentions of running a very clean place of business.
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MOTION by Napper to close the public hearing. SECOND by Klassen. Ayes:
Wippermann, Napper, Oxborough, Klassen, Willcox. Nays: 0.
MOTION by Willcox to approve issuance of an On Sale Intoxicating Liquor
License and a Sunday On Sale Intoxicating Liquor License to Louie's
Incorporated, doing business as Kady's, located at 14550 South Robert
Trail, for the period January 1, 1991 to January 1, 1992, subject to
issuance of a certificate of occupancy by the city building official.
SECOND by Klassen. Ayes: Napper, Oxborough, Klassen, Willcox, Wippermann.
Nays: 0.
Mayor Napper opened the public hearing to consider a proposed amendment to
the City of Rosemount Comprehensive Guide Plan.
The city clerk presented for the record the Affidavit of Mailed and Posted
Hearing Notice and Affidavit of Publication. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
Administrator Stephan Jilk informed Council that on December 17, 1990, City
Planner Michael Wozniak was contacted by Timothy Whitten, Project Architect
for the Rosemount Retail Center Project requesting that consideration of
the proposed Guide Plan Amendment be deferred. The reason for this request
was a last minute conflict which caused key members of the development
group to be unable to attend. Jilk advised the architect was reminded by
City Planner Wozniak that a public hearing had been scheduled and citizens
would be in attendance to listen to discussion. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
Council concurred members of the audience present for this public hearing
should be given the opportunity to comment and agreed to hold the public
hearing. Community Development Director Dean Johnson advised the proposed
amendment to the Comprehensive Guide Plan involves a request to redesignate
approximately 46 acres of property from Agriculture to General Commercial
land use designation in the Comprehensive Guide Plan and to add the
property to the Metropolitan Urban Service Area. Johnson described the
approximately 46 acres as situated just south of CSAH 42 between Shannon
Parkway and Diamond Path. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
Community Development Director Johnson provided a brief overview of a site
plan for the proposed commercial development and explained the proposed
phasing plan submitted by the developers.
Johnson stated this item was considered by the Planning Commission at its
January 23, 1990 and February 27, 1990 meetings, and the Planning
Commission recommended denial of this Guide Plan Amendment on February 27,
1990. Johnson noted the applicants have now elected to reinitiate
consideration by the City Council of the proposed plan amendment. Johnson
briefly reviewed several issues relating to staff's recommendation to deny
the proposed Guide Plan Amendment which included inconsistency with the
Goals, Objective and Policies of the Guide Plan, conflict with City policy
of requiring commercial development be located contiguous to existing
commercial areas, costs associated with construction of public utilities
and the results of a recent market analysis which indicated the proposed
development could significantly impact retail sales volume of existing
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merchants and limit the potential for expansion of commercial development.
Several members of the audience opposed the proposed development. Business
owners in the South Rose Park commercial area felt commercial development
should continue from South Rose Park to the west and not cause a leap
frogging effect, felt the proposed development was in conflict with the
recent market analysis study conducted for the City, advised proposed
similar businesses could jeopardize the existence of current businesses and
felt continued development in South Rose Park would only benefit the
present business owners as opposed to development of a new commercial area.
Homeowners living adjacent to the proposed commercial development indicated
support and opposition to the development and requested consideration for a
reasonable buffer and to not extend the streets from this area into the
residential areas.
Following public comment Council discussed whether to close the public
hearing or to continue it to another date so the applicants could provide
comment on their request for the amendment to the Comprehensive Guide Plan.
MOTION by Wippermann to close the public hearing. SECOND by Klassen.
Ayes: Wippermann. Nays: Oxborough, Klassen, Willcox, Napper.
Following failure of this motion, Council reached a general consensus to
continue the public hearing so the developers can be present to review
their proposal before Council.
MOTION by Willcox to continue the Comprehensive Guide Plan Amendment public
hearing to Tuesday, February 5, 1991, at 8:00 p.m. SECOND by Oxborough.
Ayes: Klassen, Willcox, Napper, Oxborough. Nays: Wippermann.
Building Official Ron Wasmund reviewed a survey of cities in Dakota County
and the metropolitan area concerning maintenance code and other treatment
of building deterioration problems. Wasmund summarized the housing
maintenance codes of the two cities in Dakota County that have housing
maintenance codes in place. West St. Paul's code applies to all housing
whether owner occupied or rental and starting in January, 1991, the
ordinance will be enforced through a contract with Dakota County HRA using
one of their housing inspectors. South St. Paul has a housing maintenance
code which applies only to rental property, and the license cost is $15.00
per unit for a three-year period. Wasmund also provided an overview of the
eight cities out of the twenty cities surveyed in the metropolitan area
outside of Dakota County which have maintenance codes and two others which
are considering adoption in 1991.
Wasmund estimated there are 350-400 rental units and 50-75 sleeping rooms
or manufactured homes rented in the City. Wasmund stated he felt there was
some need in the City to have some form of code or language for compliance,
which should incorporate standards for compliance with regards to
aesthetics, energy, life safety, health and environment. See Clerk's File
1990-41.
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Council discussed the merits of adopting a housing maintenance code and
reached a general consensus the code should apply to all housing whether
owner occupied or rental and should be handled on a written complaint basis
only. Council directed staff to prepare the language of a housing
maintenance code based upon this criteria.
City Engineer Rich Hefti reported on his contact with the counselor at St.
Paul Vocational Institute with regards to Rich Lonnquist serving his
internship program in the City Engineering Department beginning June 1,
1991. Hefti advised the intern position would be responsible for basically
data entry, and this responsibility met the criteria of Lonnquist's
internship program. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
MOTION by Willcox to approve Rich,Lonnquist to do his internship program at
the City based upon the criteria established by City Engineer Rich Hefti.
SECOND by Oxborough. Ayes: Willcox, Wippermann, Napper, Oxborough,
Klassen. Nays: 0.
City Engineer Rich Hefti requested Council authorization to advertise for
the engineering technician position pursuant to Council's direction to
postpone advertisement of this position until after the 1991 budget hearing
held on December 11, 1990. Discussion was held by Council as to whether
advertisement of the position should be delayed until final disposition of
the 1991 budget. City Administrator Stephan Jilk reviewed the potential
revenue brought in by this position through fees charged by providing
inspection and project management for private and public projects and
projected savings to the City by eliminating consultant fees for work
required on city projects and projected overtime by the City's second
engineering technician. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
MOTION by Klassen to approve advertisement for the engineering technician
position. SECOND by Napper. Ayes: Wippermann, Napper, Oxborough,
Klassen. Nays: Willcox.
City Administrator Jilk presented a recommendation from Fire Marshall
George Lundy to initiate a review of the City's fire rating. Jilk advised
staff members have met and concurred major improvements in the City's water
system, communication capabilities and improved fire department equipment,
training and record keeping should have a direct result on lowering the
current rating of 6. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
MOTION by Oxborough to authorize the initiation of a review of the City's
fire rating by Commercial Risk Services, Inc. SECOND by Klassen. Ayes:
Napper, Oxborough, Klassen, Willcox, Wippermann. Nays: 0.
City Engineer Rich Hefti presented for Council adoption a resolution
establishing water and sewer rates, charges and deposits for 1991. Hefti
noted the main changes in the resolution are reverting back to quarterly
charges with a minimum charge for both water and sewer. The water
consumption minimum quarterly charge will be based on 18,000 gallons and
will be $18.00 plus the meter maintenance fee. The sanitary sewer
quarterly minimum charge will be based on 15,000 gallons and will be
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$27.75. Hefti further advised the billing for sanitary sewer will be based
on the actual water consumption for the first, second and fourth quarters,
and the third quarter (June, July and August) will be estimated using the
first quarter water consumption. Concerns were expressed from one member
of the Council that the proposed minimum quarterly charge would be unfair
to senior residents on a fixed income and would not encourage water
conservation. Administrator Jilk advised the minimum quarterly charge
would bring equality to the system in that all users would be charged
equally for maintaining the system. Hefti further recommended the city
storm sewer connection charge remain the same as 1990 until further review
by the Utilities Commission. Utilities Commission Chairperson Joe Walsh
was present and answered question regarding the recommendations from the
Utilities Commission. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
MOTION by Klassen to adopt A RESOLUTION REESTABLISHING WATER AND SEWER
RATES, CHARGES AND DEPOSITS FOR 1991, and to allow the storm sewer
connection charges for 1990 to remain in place. SECOND by Wippermann.
Ayes: Oxborough, Klassen, Wippermann, Napper. Nays: Willcox.
Parks and Recreation Director David Bechtold presented the recommendation
from the Parks and Recreation Committee to increase the land values for the
dedication of land and/or cash contribution for new residential
subdivisions from $10,000 to $12,000. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
MOTION by Napper to adopt A RESOLUTION ADOPTING LAND VALUES FOR THE
COLLECTION OF PARK DEDICATION FEES IN THE CITY OF ROSEMOUNT. SECOND by
Klassen. Ayes: Klassen, Willcox, Wippermann, Napper, Oxborough. Nays:
0.
Community Development Director Dean Johnson presented drawings which
identified several issues and land use concepts for the Council to consider
regarding the possibility of the City or the Rosemount Economic Development
Authority purchasing the Sunrise Builder Supply property located at 14000
South Robert Trail. Johnson reviewed storm water ponding information,
sanitary sewer and water availability, estimated fill material needed,
potential use as a National Guard maintenance facility and the potential
relocation of existing businesses on the west side of South Robert Trail
and what tax increment may be available for creating a new tax increment
district. Council concurred the property could be a benefit to the City,
but at this point in time, consideration for purchasing the property was
not feasible. See Clerk's File 1990-41.
City Administrator Stephan Jilk thanked the Council for allowing him to
attend the National League of Cities Conference in Houston, Texas, December
1-5, 1990. Jilk found it to be a very worthwhile conference. Council
Member Klassen also reported on her attendance at the conference and agreed
it was an excellent conference.
City Administrator Jilk commented on the announcement by the Metropolitan
Council on December 14, 1990 of the three candidate search ares identified
and recommended for further consideration as areas for a potential new
major airport. The candidate search areas are the Anoka-Isanti-Chisago
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