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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2006/10/03 - ADMIN - Minutes - City Council - Regular CITY OF OFFICIAL MINUTES ST LOUIS CITY COUNCIL MEETING PARK ST. LOUIS PARK, MINNESOTA October 3, 2006 1. Call to Order Mayor Jacobs called the meeting to order at 7:31 pm. Council members present: Mayor Jeff Jacobs, John Basill, C Paul Carver, Phil Finkelstein, Paul Omodt and Loran Paprocki Councilmember Sanger was absent Staff present Assistant Zoning Administrator (Mr Morrison), City Manager (Mr Harmening), City Attorney (Mr. Scott), Community Development Director(Mr. Locke), Planning/Zoning Supervisor(Ms McMonigal), Recreation Supervisor(Ms Margo) and Recording Secretary (Ms. Stegora-Peterson). 2. Presentations 2a. Sponsorship Parks and Recreation Mayor Jacobs and Michelle Margo presented certificates of appreciation to the following businesses for collaboration with the City: RLK Inc. (Canoe Landing), Target (Bookmark in the Park, Operations for the Police and Fire Depts. and Canoe Landing); Sam's Club (Bookmark in the Park, the Healthy Heart 5k, the Goblin March and Halloween party); American Automobile Association (Summer concert senes and the Fall Music Fest); Excelsior and Grand (Park and Run, Fall Music Fest, Bunny Egg Hunt and Halloween events); and, Park Nicollet Heart and Vascular Center (Park and Run and Health Heart 5k) Representatives of RLK and Target accepted their certificates 3. Approval of Minutes 3a. Study Session Minutes of September 11, 2006 The minutes were approved as presented. 3b. City Council Minutes of September 18, 2006 The minutes were approved as presented 4. Approval of Agenda and Items on Consent Calendar NOTE The Consent Calendar lists those items of business which are considered to be routine and/or which need no discussion Consent items are acted upon by one motion If discussion is desired by either a Councilmember or a member of the audience,that item may be moved to an appropnate section of the regular agenda for discussion 4a. Motion to authonze execution of a contract with Calgon Carbon Corporation for the purchase of Granular Activated Carbon in the amount of$79,600.00 4b. Motion to adopt Resolution No. 06-155 appointing student election judges and additional regular election judges to staff the polls at the General Election November 7, 2006 4c. Motion to adopt Resolution No. 06-156 approving the Final Plat of Hoigaard Village 2"d Addition City Council Minutes -2- October 3, 2006 4d. Motion to adopt Resolution No. 06-157 approving a Minor Amendment to the Planned Unit Development for Hoigaard Village 4e. Motion to approve the Amendment to the Vehicle Towing and Impounding Agreement between the City and All Hours Towing. 4f. Motion to approve the Lease Agreement with All Hours Towing for a portion of 5100 Park Glen Road for use as a towing and impound lot 4g. Motion to designate Jay Bros., Inc. the lowest responsible bidder and authonze execution of a contract with the firm in the amount of $59,322 50 for the Edgebrook Park Trail Connection—City Project No. 2004-0301 4h. Motion Restating Resolution No. 06-158 Authorizing Award of the 2006 St. Louis Park Arts and Culture Grants. 4i. Motion approving the Cooperative Agreement between Hennepin County, Three Rivers Park Distnct, and the City of St. Louis Park for the CSAH 25 Pedestrian and Bicycle Bndge and authonzing the Mayor and City Manager to execute the Agreement 4j. Motion to adopt Resolution No. 06-159 Imposing Civil Penalty for Liquor License Violation at Park Tavern Lounge and Lanes according to the recommendation of the City Manager 4k. Motion to approve Resolution No. 06-160 establishing a special assessment for the installation of a fire suppression spnnkler system at 5551 West Lake Street, St. Louis Park, MN 55416, amending and restating Resolution No. 06-069. 41. Motion to Approve Planning Commission Minutes of August 16, 2006 4m. Motion to Approve Vendor Claims For Filing(supplement) It was moved by Councilmember Paprocki, seconded by Councilmember Carver, to approve the Agenda and Items listed on the Consent Calendar The motion passed 6-0 5. Boards and Commissions 6. Public Hearings - None 7. Requests, Petitions, and Communications from the Public—None 8. Resolutions, Ordinances, Motions 8a. Elmwood Village in the Park II - Preliminary Planned Unit Development (PUD) and Preliminary Plat, Location: 36`h Street and Wooddale Avenue, Applicant: David Bernard Builders and Developers, Case No.: 05-77-PUD & 05-78-S Resolution No.'s 06-153 and 06-154 Mr. Morrison presented the staff report Tim Whitten, Executive Vice President of Rottlund Company, appreciated their partnership with staff and were pleased about the first phase and the neighborhood this was creating. Councilmember Finkelstein strongly encouraged indoor trash handling. Other residential living facilities with outdoor trash handling hadn't worked well. City Council Minutes -3- October 3, 2006 Ms McMonigal indicated they were planning to store the residential trash indoors. They were working on the commercial area Councilmember Basill stated he liked that the 55+ housing, which had been popular on the first phase and was needed He liked the larger setback, which was good for walk- ability. He had concerns about parking, but felt it was the best that could be done under the circumstances. His biggest concern was traffic. Wooddale and Highway 7 needs an above grade crossing to be safer for pedestrians and children They were continuing to work on that and he felt there was support to continue that work. It was moved by Councilmember Basil!, seconded by Councilmember Omodt, to adopt Resolution No. 06-153 approving the Preliminary Planned Unit Development (PUD), subject to conditions as recommended by Planning Commission and staff and to adopt Resolution No. 06-154 approving the Preliminary Plat for Elmwood Village 2nd Addition, subject to conditions as recommended by Planning Commission and staff The motion passed 6-0 8b. Update on Community Foundation, Vision St. Louis Park, and Southwest LRT Study-Jim Brimeyer Jim Brimeyer presented an update on the Community Foundation priorities. Support youth activities, improve and beautify the environment, and build strong, livable neighborhoods They had a balance of approximately $40,000 after grants and fundraising, and about $47,000 in 2006 grants They were working to match the city's commitment to Children's First, Meadowbrook Collaborative and STEP. They will be hosting a Give Back Day on October 23`d at the Doubletree Vision St. Louis Park — St. Louis Park has a proven track record and is one of the few that has done this The partners are the city, School, Chamber, Children's First and Park Nicollet. All of the data had been compiled and volunteers are chairing steering committees, with 125 citizen volunteers on the Vision action teams They plan to be done by November. They are using the data collected at their meetings= They are going to make a book of dreams projecting to 2017, writing a present day description of what St Louis Park will be like in 2017 The areas are environment, transportation, sidewalks and trails, gathering places, community events, housing, arts and culture and diversity. They have been given a report template and guidance for a one-page dream for their area Each action team will set up goals, action steps, a timeline and identify lead partners. There is a celebration on November 9th from 4-7 PM at the Doubletree Southwest LRT Study — The Hiawatha line has been so successful that the Federal Transportation Administration has developed new criteria for new starts The ndership is out of sight. The board decided to look at other alternatives for a line There are two alternatives, LRT A and LRT C. LRT A comes from Shady Oak Rd in Hopkins to downtown Minneapolis along the Kenilworth corridor When you get West of that, there are four alternative stops, stop three picks up the most ridership LRT C branches off at West Lake and goes across the greenway corridor, comes down Nicollet in a tunnel and comes into downtown The reason that was being considered was because there was more possible ridership along the corndor and along Nicollet and it serves more low- income households The CEI (Cost Effective Index) needs to be considered City Council Minutes -4- October 3, 2006 In the past LRT lines went in based on the congressional influence from that distract and local funding. In the middle of this process they were told unless they had a dedicated local funding source, the Federal government wouldn't fund it no matter how good it looked. They set up a sub committee and heard about local funding, but it wasn't enough. They are considenng the Central comdor between Minneapolis and St Paul, and one of the questions he raised was if they could go ahead the Central corridor. According to the Met Council's transportation plan, the Central Comdor goes next, and then Northstar and they were in the mix with other lines after those At the last meeting, he noticed that LRT C did not connect to the main comdor. It goes into downtown to 7th Street, and then passengers take a streetcar to get on the Central Comdor or Hiawatha. LRT A goes to the Royalston Station, which loops around and connects with Hiawatha and goes to the Central Corridor. He could not suggest they build LRT in the Southwest corridor that does not connect to the Central or Hiawatha Comdor. The implication is that freight rail goes through St Louis Park, which is one of the big challenges for LRT A One of the factors that needed to be considered was how to mitigate the impact of freight rail There is no good way to build LRT C and get it connected. The committee meets again in November and they need to pick a desired alternative Then they go into the draft environmental impact statement and look at the impacts on neighborhoods as well as ridership and cost. There is also an economical impact. This would be up to the Hennepin County Regional Railroad Authonty to follow through on. This would be done around 2016 or 2017. Mr. Harmening noted the Technical Advisory Committee recommendation is, as the study process continues through the environmental impact statement process, that they look at both LRT A and C Assuming the PAC and County Board agree with that, those two alternatives would still be examined It had not been narrowed down to one specific alignment. Mr. Brimeyer stated he would not support LRT C because of the tunnel under Nicollet and secondly because it didn't connect to the other lines. He thought they should also push to connect the SW Corridor to the Hiawatha Corridor via the Midtown Greenway. Mayor Jacobs felt the point of mass transit was connectedness and LRT C did not make sense to him. Mr Brimeyer indicated to go ahead with Federal approval, the CEI has to be at $29 to go to preliminary engineering and when you are done, you have to be at $23 They needed to impose criteria Councilmember Finkelstein asked about financing? Mr. Bnmeyer replied the Federal share is 90% and the local is 10%. You need to show that the 10% is dedicated for future capital and operating costs and they didn't have that. All they had was what the legislature funds, which is why it takes so long MVST is a start, but it was only about 1/3 of what they needed. Mayor Jacobs stated the Regional Council of Mayors has been talking about this and has asked representatives of Denver to come The difficulty is to get the people that might be subject to the sales tax that might not have the same sense of the problem. City Council Minutes -5- October 3, 2006 Councilmember Finkelstein asked why the City of Minneapolis was pushing LRT C when it didn't connect? Mr Bnmeyer replied one of the big reasons was because it served a population that should be served Ms. McMonigal noted Minneapolis hadn't taken a formal position on the route. Mr. Bnmeyer noted the numbers needed to be crunched. The next step is the Hennepin County Railroad Authonty authorizing someone to do the environmental impact statement. Mr Harmemng asked about the community meetings? Mr. Bnmeyer stated there were four set up The next is October 12th at City Hall from 6-8 PM. Ms McMonigal noted that the neighborhood leaders were invited and it was advertising in the Park Perspective Councilmember Basill indicated he appreciated Mr. Bnmeyer's work on these projects. He asked if they went with LRT A and stopped at Hopkins, which would be a fairly inexpensive route, was there a chance of getting this moved up? Mr. Bnmeyer replied it would still be behind Central Corridor, but possibly ahead of other corridors. The problem with stopping there was the ndership would not be as dramatic as if they did LRT 3A. Ms. McMonigal added they had discussions about that and Hopkins had concerns about the demand for park and ride They would still have to build certain facilities either way The cost per mile comes out a lot higher because there were so many fewer miles Mr. Bnmeyer noted there is cntena that needs to be met for the line chosen Mayor Jacobs asked what the best guess would be for this to happen? Mr. Bnmeyer felt it would be started in about ten years, assuming there is a local funding source Councilmember Carver agreed on the feelings about the LRT C route. 9. Communications Mayor Jacobs reminded residents that there would be a book reading and other events at the Rec. Center on October 7`h for Bookmark in the Park. The author of Bndge to Amenca, Linda Glaser, will be in attendance 10. Adjournment The meeting adjourned at 8.44 p m. -)10A71,(Ai . IL City Clerk Mayo