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Meeting
Minutes
Tuesday, February 26, 2008,
at 6:30 p.m.
1. Introductions/Roll
Call
Commission
members present: Randy Neprash, Jan Vanderwall, Ernie Willenbring, and Jim
DeBenedet
Commission
members absent: Dwayne Stenlund
Staff
present: Duane Schwartz, Public Works Director; Deb Bloom, City Engineer
Others
present: Tim Pratt, City Recycling Coordinator; Alex Danovitch and Chris
Goodwin, Eureka Recycling
2. Public
Comments
None
3. Swearing in of
New Member
New member Dwayne
Stenlund was not in attendance.
4. Approval
of January 22, 2007, Meeting Minutes
Member
Vanderwall moved to approve the minutes of the January 22, 2007, meeting of
the Public Works, Environment and Transportation Commission. Member Neprash
seconded.
Ayes: 4
Nays: 0
Motion
carried
5. Communication
Items
Environmental
Door Hangers
Deb Bloom presented three door hangers that staff had created. Member Vanderwall asked that the
door hangers be available in city hall as handouts.
Member
Neprash said the one on trash in the storm sewer wasn’t clear enough and
should have better graphics and that it should include a directive to sweep
your driveway instead of washing debris into the street. Ms. Bloom said she
was trying to emphasize the city code, but she would take the suggestions
under advisement. Chair DeBenedet thought the reference to paint disposal
should be pulled off that same door hanger and set off separately with
disposal site information.
Item
Out of Order
6. Eureka Recycling Annual Report
Since
Eureka Recycling representatives were waiting in the audience, Chair
DeBenedet decided to address his item at this time.
Alex
Danovitch and Chris Goodwin from Eureka Recycling presented their yearly
report to the Commission. There has been a 7% increase in the amount of
recycling in Roseville in the last year.
Member
Neprash asked how the City’s share of the recycling profits was used in the
budget. Mr. Pratt said it goes back into the recycling fund and has allowed
recycling rates to remain the same even though pickup was increased to once a
week. The fund also paid for recycling containers in parks, as well as other
recycling related items.
5. Communication
Items (Continued)
Comprehensive
Plan Update
Duane Schwartz informed the Commission of a Comprehensive Plan Update Open House being held at
City Hall on Thursday, March 27 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Chair DeBenedet
commented that the process has been going well so far although it’s
challenging and there’s a lot of ground to cover. Public participation has
been a concern of those involved.
Watermain Lining
Project
Mr.
Schwartz updated the Commission on the progress of this project.
Cleanup
Day—April 26
Tim
Pratt, City Recycling Coordinator, updated the Commission on Cleanup Day.
Twin Lakes Update
Ms.
Bloom updated the Commission on Twin Lakes. Member Vanderwall asked when
planning a site how do they know what percentage of the property is going to
commercial, what residential, etc. Mr. Schwartz said the land use was
anticipated in the master plan.
Chair
DeBenedet said it’s important to note that the total cost of all improvements
necessary for the development is allocated back to the redevelopers and
doesn’t come out of tax money.
Chair
DeBenedet asked if the developer agreements are designed so that there will
be a reconciliation of costs at the end of the project. Mr. Schwartz said
the City has retained a financial consultant to work out the details of how
development costs are paid back if the City chooses financial participation.
7. McGough
Plan for Twin Lakes
Ms.
Bloom presented the McGough plan, which is an application for concept plan
that will go before the Planning Commission next week. Mr. Schwartz said
that there isn’t a lot of detail in the concept plan in terms of how
buildings are actually located, etc, so it’s important for the PWETC to
comment back to the Planning Commission about what they’d like to see.
Chair
DeBenedet was questioning the cul-de-sac size requirement in the report and
whether it was necessary since the goal was to use as little pavement as
possible. Ms. Bloom said that the city code for cul-de-sacs was very clear
and that’s where the requirement came from. Member Vanderwall said that for
reference the turning radius of a school bus is 106’.
Member
Neprash asked if they were heading toward having no Iona Lane. Ms. Bloom
said Iona Lane was never intended to be developed as a major access. Member Neprash
asked why the City wasn’t telling the developer not to build Iona. Mr. Schwartz said the City has been telling them Iona Lane wasn’t part of the
infrastructure plan and if the developer wanted to build it, they would have
to pay for it in its entirety. The developer was also told the city was
against them rebuilding it.
Chair
DeBenedet said what he’d like to see is more trees and islands within parking
lots. Member Neprash said he didn’t see how this plan would meet the
infiltration water reduction standards of Rice Creek Watershed. Ms. Bloom
said that any developer would need a Rice Creek permit so they would have to
meet requirements before construction begins.
Chair
DeBenedet said he is anxious to hear how McGough plans to meet the Rice Creek
Watershed standards. Mr. Schwartz said that maybe a representative from
McGough could come to a future meeting to discuss it.
Member
Vanderwall asked if Arthur Street was just going to come to an end. Mr.
Schwartz said no, that the plan was to have it connect to Twin Lakes Parkway
in a T intersection.
Chair
DeBenedet said it’s his opinion that the developer’s agreement should move
forward requiring as much construction of Twin Lakes Parkway as possible.
8. Storm
Water Annual Report
Chair
DeBenedet requested that this be moved to the next meeting, but Ms. Bloom
said there were three items in the report that were time sensitive that she
wanted to present. It was decided to discuss the three items tonight and
move discussion of the remaining report to the next meeting.
9. Agenda
for Next Meeting – March 25, 2008
Storm
Water Annual Report (Continued)
New
Pathways Committee
Other
topics to be determined
A
brief discussion was had about the new Pathways Committee. A volunteer was
requested from the Commission. Member Vanderwall volunteered to serve.
10.
Adjournment
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