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ARDEN HILLS SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL WORKSESSION — JANUARY 8, 2024 9 <br />City Administrator Perrault said ultimately this wouldn't require Council approval as <br />Superintendent Frid and Director Swearingen would be allowed to set the maintenance employee <br />schedule, but it may require a Personnel Policy change. If Council is comfortable with this, it <br />could be done with a trial period and if it works out it could be made permanent or adjusted. It <br />isn't intended to be a union negotiated contract item. <br />Mayor Grant thought the contract said management sets the hours so they're not giving that up. <br />Councilmember Fabel agreed with the proposal. <br />Councilmember Monson also agreed. <br />Mayor Grant said as long as they could assess it and put it out as a trial he was OK with it. <br />E. Ground Mounted Solar Energy Systems in Residential Districts Discussion <br />Community Development Director Jagoe said that in November, 2023, the City Council <br />reviewed Planning Case 23-018 from Mr. Wahlberg for a request to amend city ordinances to allow <br />for ground -mounted solar energy systems in residential zoning districts. Based on discussions with <br />Councilmember Monson, there are two draft ordinances for Council review. Attachment A removes <br />screening requirements entirely and Attachment B is a modified version of screening requirements. <br />Both revisions have been amended to allow for ground -mounted solar energy systems to be located in <br />the side yard and remove language for glare and nonfunctioning systems. <br />Councilmember Monson added that her preference is the no screening option but she believed <br />the Council would want to go with some language for screening in case there was a problem. <br />Overall, they are extremely difficult to screen, and screening could create problems for the <br />facility. <br />Councilmember Holden you could have someone with a large yard so it wouldn't be visible <br />from their house but the neighbor would look at it. If it doesn't reduce the efficiency, she thought <br />they should be able to say there should be some screening. <br />Councilmember Rousseau said the Planning Commission has concerns around this issue such as <br />screening impacting the overall effectiveness, and additional costs. She was OK with removing <br />the screening. <br />Councilmember Fabel asked if the no screening option gave more discretion to the department to <br />review each application? <br />Community Development Director Jagoe replied that with the no screening option they <br />wouldn't require or look for that, so the applicant wouldn't need to produce anything that said <br />where they had fencing or trees. <br />Councilmember Monson said in her experience of doing this for the last ten years you can't hide <br />the systems, so she wouldn't ask people to spend more money to try to hide them. <br />Councilmember Fabel said he would go along with that. <br />
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