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Minutes of Regular Council Meeting
Village of Arden Hills
Monday, November 30, 1981 - 7:30 p.m.
Village Hall
Call to Order
Pursuan t to due call and notice thereof, Mayor Woodburn called
the meeting to order st 7:30 p.m.
Roll Call
Present - Mayor Robert Woodburn, Councilmen Diane McAllister,
Maurice Johnson, Janet Hollenhorst
~ Absen t - Councilmsn James Wingert
Also Present - Village Engineer Donald Christoffersen, Treasurer
Donald Lamb, Bond Counsel Peter Popovich, Deputy
Clerk Dorothy Zehm
Approval of Minutes
Hollenhorst moved, seconded by McAllister, that the Minutes of the
November 23rd Council Meeting be approved as amended. Motion
carried unanimously (4-0).
Business From 'lhe Floor
None
PUBLIC HEARINGS:
Ramsey County LexinRton Avenue Pr01ect, Crey Fox Road to County
Road F snd Improvement No. P-81-4 (Concrete Curb and Gut te r)
(See attached Minutes of Hearing)
Hollenhorst moved, seconded by Johnson, that Council authorize
eltecution of the Arden Hi lls Ramsey County Agreement. Motion
carried (4-0).
Johnson moved, seconded by Hollenhorst, that Council adOpt Reso-
!9tion 81~ERING THE CON~RUCTION OF IMPROVEMENT NO. P-81-4.
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Improvement No. SS-W-P-ST 8~~3 (Arden Oaks)
(See attached Minutes of Hearing)
(Johnson left the meeting prior to Council action). McAllister
moved, seconded by Hollenhorst, that Council adopt Resolution No.
81-8S, Ordering Preparation of Plans and Specifications, Improve-
ment No. SS-W-P-ST 81-3. Motion carried unanimously (3-0) .
Proposed Vacation of Roads in Shady Oaks Addition (Arden Oaks)
Mayor Woodburn opened the Public Hearing at 8:55 p.m. and Deputy
Clerk Zehm verified that the Notice of Hearing was puhlished in
the New Brighton Bulletin and mailed to affected property owners
on November 19, 1981.
A drawing of Sh ady Oaks Addi tion, as presently platted, was shown
by Kurt Laughinghouse (developer of Arden Oaks), with Arden Oaks
superimposed over the original plat. Laughinghouse explained that
the reads wi thin the eltisting plat (Shady Oaks Addition) are pro-
.. posed to be vacated in order to provide for the new plat (Arden
Oaks) .
Donna Hatch, 3632 Pascal Ave. No. , asked if the vacation affects
the portion of Pascal Ave. not included in Arden Oaks. It was elt-
plained that it would not; only change proposed is tha t a turn-
around area is proposed at the north end of Pascal, within Arden
Oaka.
Atter determining that there were no further comments or questions,
the Public Hearing was closed at 9:0S P .Il.
It waa Council's understanding that Attorney Lynden will prepare
the resolution, vacating the roads in Shady Oaks Addition within
the Arden Oaks plat, for Council adoption at a later meeting; that
the developer of Arden Oaka (Kurt Laughinghouse) will contact
Attorney Lynden relative to preparation of a Development Agreement.
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Minutes of Regular Council Meeting Nov. ;\0, 1981
Approval of 1982 Liquor Licenses Council approve
Hollenhorst moved, seconded by McAllister that
issuance of the following 1982 Liquor Licenses, subject to appli-
cation and bond corrections recommended by Attorney Lynden:
11 Hotel Managers and Restaurant, Ine.
1201 West County Road E
d/b/a McGuire's Inn
On-Sale, On-Sale Sunday, Off-Sale
12 Big Ten Suppe r CI ub , Inc.
4703 Highway 10
On-Sale, On-Sale Sunday, Off-Sale
13 GDM d/b/a Lindey's Prime Steak House ,
3610 N. Snelling Ave.
On-Sale, Off-Sale
14 Flaherty's Arden Bowl, Inc.
1243 W. Coun ty Road E
On-Sale, On-Sale Sunday
15 Arden Hi 11s Club
4177 Fernwood
On-Sale, On-Sale Sunday
16 Blue Fox, Inc.
3833 N. Lexington Ave.
On-Sale, On-Sale Sunday
17 Star Liquors, Inc.
3537 North Lexington Ave.
Off-Sale
Motion carried unanimously (3-0) .
REPORT OF VILLAGE CLERK ADMINISTRATOR CHARLOTTE MC NIESH
(abs~nt)
1982 Workmen's Compensation Quotation - Employees Bene f1 t
Administration Co.
Council was referred to Estimated Annnal Premium for the City of
Arden 1\111s, which Mayor Woodburn noted is less than budgeted in
1982 because of the considerably improved Experience Modification
Factor.
McAllister moved, seconded by Hollenhorst, that Council approve
the League of Minnesota Cities Insurance Trust Self-Insured
Worker's Compensation Quotation. Motion carried unanimously
(3-0) .
State Aid Apportionment - Firemen's Relief Association
Hollenhorst moved, seconded by McAllister, that Council approve
payment of $57,383.62 to Lake Johanna Volunteer Firemen's Benefit
Association, Inc. Motion csrried unanimously (3-0) .
COUNCIL LIAISON REPORTS .
InRerson Psrk
McAllister reported considerable tree and sh rub damage in Ingerson
Park caused by the recent snow/ice storm.
Strobe Lights - Motorola Tower
Hollenhorst reported that Dan Vaughan said he would sppreciate
receiving any complaints relative to the Motorola Tower in written
form, for his submittal to FAA and the manufacturer of the tower
11gh tB .
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Minutes of Regular Council Meetins Nov. 30, 1981
Ad1ourn...ent
Hollenhorst ...oved, seconded by McAllister, that the meeting
adjourn at 9:46 p..... Motion carried unanimously (3-0) .
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Charlotte McNiesh Robert L. Woodburn
Clerk Administrator Mayor
~ Notice of Council MeetinR
The next Regular Council meeting will be held on Monday,
De cemb e r 14, 1981 at 7: 30 p. m. at the Village Hall.
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Extract of Minutes of Meeting
. of City Council
City of Arden Hills
Ramsey County, Minnesota
November 30, 1981
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota, was
held in the City Hall in said City on Monday, November 30, 1981,
at 7:30 o'clock p.m.
The following members were present: Mayor woodburn and
Councilmen Johnson, McAllister and Hollenhorst; and the fol-
lowing was absent: Councilman Wingert.
Also present were Donald Lamb, City Treasurer; Donald
Christoffersen of Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc. , City Engi-
. neersi Dorothy Zehm, Deputy Clerk; and Peter s. Popovich of
Peterson, Popovich, Knu tson & Flynn, City Bond Consultant.
MAYOR WOODBURN: The next hearing is for Improvement No.
SS-W-P-ST-81-3. It will be explained in detail in a moment.
Mrs. Zehm, do you have the affidavit of publication?
MRS. DOROTHY ZEHM: It was published in the New Brighton
Bulletin on November 19 .and 26, 1981. We also have the Cer-
tificate of Mailing on file.
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN : This improvement was initiated pri-
marily by the Arden Oaks Addition and it includes sanitary
sewer, watemain, and construction of streets and some storm
drainage. There are some problems, in this rather isolated
piece of property, whereby watermain has to be extended
. through the property, as well as sanitary sewer and a street.
I'll start with the streets. To begin .with, it will be typical
seven ton design streets, concrete curb and gutter, 34 feet
wide. It's proposed to improve Wesley Avenue from County
Road E to Arden Oaks Drive. This is an existing right-of-way,
somewhat of a thoroughfare - some type of street - there's a
driveway at this end of it. This would be all constructed by
the developer, as far as grading and such in this area and in
. the Arden Oaks development. It includes the construction of
Arden Oaks Drive in a circular manner, back out to Old Highway
10_ Proposed sanitary sewers to this point on Wesley to
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serve not only the development, but two potential lots in this
area and perhaps some property in this area, although this is low
. and it's questionable whether or not it can be developed.
Sanitary sewers would run along the center of the streets,
roughly speaking, in a westerly direction back to Old Highway
10, under Old Highway 10 to the west side. Also, sanitary
sewer is proposed to be constructed on the west side of 10.
There's a piece of property in here that is not currently
being served by sanitary sewer. This sanitary sewer would
drain in this direction and at this point it is proposed to
install a sanitary sewer pumping station to pump the sewage in
from a low area, back down southerly to the existing sanitary
sewer along County Road E. It is proposed to construct water-
main .on Wesley Avenue beginning at County Road E, along the
streets in the development, around the development, again back
out to Old Highway 10, and up on the left side of Old Highway
10 and crossing southerly across County Road E and making the
connection to the existing watermain. Thus, we're making the
large loop that's required.
Additional internal drainage would include storm sewer
construction, drainage out to the north towards the Soo Line
Railroad to the proposed storm water detention basin, which
would be constructed by the developer. Also, another storm
sewer beginning at the low area just on the west side of Wesley
Avenue, north of County Road E, which would commence northerly
at Arden Oaks Drive, around to the east end of Arden Oaks Drive
. and then draining northeasterly to another storm water deten-
tion basin which ultimately drains to the Soo Line Railroad,
which ultimately drains to the west and then crosses northerly
under Old Highway 10 to Bethel College and Valentine Lake.
Points of interest - in addition to the heavy dark line
that you'll notice here is the outline of the proposed Arden
Oaks Development. There are other parcels of property that
may utilize the facilities being constructed. I neglected to
point out here that sewer and water are being constructed
north to this area, primarily to serve this particular lot and
house, and a potential lot to the east of that existing house.
This is not part of the development. It could potentially be
served by sewer and water with what is being proposed, as well
as this property in this location and, although it's not drawn
on this map, there are two lots developed in this area that
can be served by this proposed improvement. I believe that
. completes it, your Honor.
MR. POPOVICH: Mayor and members of the Council, the
total estimated cost of this project is $648,935.00. Of that,
the Arden Oaks Addition portion is estimated at $466,035.00.
The balance of the improvement would be on Wesley Avenue and
portions of Pascal and Old Highway 10. $207,710.00 would be
the cost of the sanitary sewer, $141,960.00 for watermain,
. $252,820.00 for street, and $46,445.0.0 for storm drainage.
Depending on where the lots are, there are different amounts
that will be assessed. Assuming it's 100% assessed, if a lot
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gets sanitary sewer, that assessment cost will be $4,830.00;
. watermain will be $3,301.00; street will be $6,320.00; and
storm sewer will be $1,161. 00; so if you got all of that, the
total cost would be approximately $15,612.00 per lot. As I
remember from the feasibility report, there are about 43 lots
that receive that type of improvement. It would be our recom-
mendation that for those - assuming the assessment - that we
ought to not assess over longer than a 15 year period because
of present market conditions. But for that portion that lies
within the addition, because it's totally a developer matter,
the Council may wish to consider a development agreement
where those total assessments are paid in a three to five
year period. I don't know if the developer is here, but that
is one item that you ought to consider because it does affect
the amount of financing you do and how fast (inaudible) in
the actual development itself. It's possible to have different
assessment formulas within the same improvement because of the
difference between where there are existing properties as
compared to those that are being requested by the development
agreement.
Assuming it is assessed, as the greater portion of the
project will be, and we're assuming 100% assessment here
unless there are some allowances that the Council makes at
the assessment hearing, that will be spread over a period of
time determined by the development agreement, or not to
. exceed 15 years at the maximum interest rate, which would be
1% more than the bond issue or not more than 12%, as permitted
by the Local Improvement Code. Assuming the project is done
in 1982, we will hold our assessment hearing next fall and
collections should commence in 1983. This is one of the
projects that would be included in the proposed bond issue
if it was approved and you decided to go ahead. That issue
is scheduled for sale in late January or early February.
MAYOR WOODBURN: M:t:. Christiffersen, 43 lots were men-
tioned as possible assessable lots, or involved lots. Which
ones are in the development? Do you have those figures with
you?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The lots within the development are
outlined by a heavy dark line and there are five or six po-
tential lots outside, depending on how the property is
divided. When I say five or six, there are two potential
. lots here, two or three along the east side of Old Highway 10,
and that depends strictly on the development and. the way the
land is divided. There is a long, deep lot which exists as
one lot right now and there's potential for another redivision
of this land, creating a lot fronting on Arden Oaks Drive.
Currently that is counted as one. That number could be
changed though.
. MAYOR WOODBURN: Mrs. Zehm, are -there any written com-
ments on the development?
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MRS. ZEHM: No, I have not received any.
. MAYOR WOODBURN: I will open the public hearing. The
developer is here if you would to make any comments.
MR. CURT LAUGHINGHOUSE, Derrick Land Company: We did
petition for the improvements within Arden Oaks and we do hope
they will be improved and put upon the program for next summer
and be financed as a public improvement, as we have requested.
One thing I was surprised at, and it's not a great deal, but
I was surprised at the size of the section and I guess I need
to ask Mr. Christoffersen - the size of the road section - is
that 34 feet back to back or inside the faces?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN : Face to face.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: So it's even greater, 35 feet perhaps,
back to back. When I say back to back, I mean back of curb to
back of curb.
MR. CHRISTOFFERS EN: Back of curb - it would be closer to
35, 35 1/2.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: That's just a bigger section than
what I'm accustomed to, but if that's the City standard, that's
just fine. Mr. Popovich did refer to the terms of assessment.
That is, whether its 15 years or three or five or otherwise.
. We would prefer longer assessments - it makes it much more
reasonable for - of course, this will be settled next fall.
As you can imagine, these lots will not necessarily sellout
immediately, and the better terms that can be available, the
easier it will be on the ultimate consumer of the lots. Other-
wise, I'd be glad to answer any questions.
MR. POPOVICH: On that point, he indicated he could wait
with the development agreement until the assessment hearing.
From our point of view, 'assuming we sell bondS in a month or
two, if you're going to have a development agreement, we
should know that now, because in the bond prospectus that goes
out we could then indicate that there would be some $466,000.00
of $648,000.00 that would be paid over a three to five year
period because of the terms of the development agreement.
That affects whether we go with long term financing or short
term financing because obviously, if the people who are going
. to bid on the bonds know that so much of it is going to be
paid within a certain period of time - that's going to affect
your interest rates. So we can't wait until the. assessment
hearing next fall. That's something that the Council and the
attorney and the developer should get together on before we
advertise for bond bids. I just wanted to say that so Curt
would know where I come from right now, not next year.
. MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: I didn't realize that. We'd be happy
to work that out.
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MAYOR WOODBURN: (Inaudible) in January.
. MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: We can work on it right away.
MAYOR WOODBURN: It should be one of our items on the
agenda hopefully in January.
MR. JOHN ECKERT, 3620 North Pascal: As it's been ex-
plained here, there are going to be no improvements to North
Pascal. Is that correct?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: There is a potential - not along
Pascal itself - a potential turn-around at the north end of it.
An emergency vehicle turn-around. I didn't discuss that.
That's part of the proposed improvement - part of the cost as
in the proposed improvement is to provide what we call a
hammerhead-type turn-around - just a "T" - for emergency
vehicles to turn around. Relocation of a hydrant. That's the
extent of the construction.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Any more questions or comments?
MR. MAX STOUTENBURG, 1435 West County Road E: In regard
to the lot size - the lot size is going to be quite a bit
larger than what the existing lot sizes are in the other area.
For instance, my lot there in the corner is 75 by 168, I
believe, and I don't know what the others are, but you get up
. into that other area there and the lots look like they're twice
the size of what the normal lot size is. Is this standard
procedure for the Village - to put that size lots in there?
And again, what kind of housing is going to go in there when
they build the houses? Are these lots just going to go up for
sale and the owner has the choice of picking the type of
housing that goes in there or are you actually going to build
the houses and sell them as lots and houses? Are you going to
sell the lots or lots and houses? What kind of housing can
we expect in there? Are they going to be in the $100,000
category? If you build a $100,000 house right behind my house,
my property values are going to drop. That's what I'm con-
cerned about.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: Our firm does not build this kind of
single family home. We have developed - just to give you
some kind of idea - we have developed, in the last three years -
. I'll go through it real quickly - in Lake Elmo, 150 single
family lots; in Mendota Heights, 40 some; Apple Valley, 70
some ; Minnetonka, well over 100; Wayzata, 20; all single
family. In Minnetonka we have also developed a couple of
duplex lots - seven in fact. In Coon Rapids we have 114 lots
of singles and quads. The only construction our company has
ever done has been on the duplex lots in Minnetonka. Generally,
our plan - first of all, we sell them to make the most money
. (inaudible) . Generally, our plan has been to sell these to
individual purchasers. In the past, that's what we've done.
We have also usually - and at this point I don't want to say
we're going to - but we usually put covenants on the property
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so that an architectural control committee within our company
controls the architecture, or the design, of the house. As to
. the dollars question, I doubt very much that anything on there
could be built for less than $100,000, or probably $140,000 or
$150,000 or $160,000. We sincerely hope that it will be in
that range, or more, because the lots are going to have to be
priced at $25,000 and up. One doesn't build $100,000 homes -
that's probably the minimum that you can build on a $25,000
lot. I don't anticipate devaluating the properties around it
at all. I don't mean to sound elitist - I think we're going to
do a good job of controlling the architecture. However, we will
not - I strongly doubt that we'll be building the homes. That
is not our custom.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Another question I can perhaps answer
here - this is a residential zone and this type of zone, 95
feet is the minimum lot that would be allowed - 14,000, plus
or minus, square feet.
MR. STOUTENBURG, Isn't that quite a bit more from what
our standard lots are there?
MAYOR WOODBURN: Perhaps more than what yours is, but not
in an R-l zone -it's 85 feet, I believe, in R-2; 95 feet, I
believe, in R-l. Your lots were designed a while before the
zoning was in, I'm sure. I would like to just vaguely comment
on something else you said - I think the general experience is,
. when new, expensive houses are built in a neighborhood like
this, that it helps the housing value.
MR. STOUTENBURG, It helps their housing value.
MAYOR WOODBURN: No, yours. I think that is what is
generally found. I'm not a realtor - somebody else might want
to comment on that too.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE, I did remember another question the
gentleman asked - the lots on the east side are extra large.
The reason is that the land along the east side is quite low.
It's sort of an extension of that pond that's up on the north-
east corner. That is the reason that they are larger lots.
It's not possible to move the road to the east and put more
lots in. We have put the lots in, more or less to the stand-
ards of the City - minimum standards of the City. Again, what
. the Mayor said, 95 foot frontage and so many square feet.
MR. STOUTENBURG, When you go through a project like
this, do you level off all the trees or are you going to leave
most of the oak trees that are in that area back there and
let the homeowner that buys the lot determine how many trees
he wants to cut down?
. MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE, Same answer. A modern developer is
not like the developer in the 1950's. We all learn, I guess.
Not that I was a developer in the 1950's, but we don't clear
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the land and put the streets in straight - not at all. We've
made an effort here to put the roads where the terrain tells
. us, so there's minimum grading. We also, you'll notice, between
the two cul-de-sacs - that's where the woods are - we put a
minimum of streets in there. An older plan that was proposed
for this land - the former owners put across - had a full loop
road there and we cul-de-saced for the very reason you mention -
preserve trees. We intend to preserve trees just as much as
we can. They're valuable to us as sales tools. We wouldn't
cut down a tree - in fact, very frequently I go through and
work with the people who are marking the trees and if there's
one on the line - leave it. Then we go back and when we try
to pave the darn thing and grade for sewer, we have to take
.another tree. We keep it to a minimum when we can.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Mr. Christoffersen, in the feasibility
report, how much grading is anticipated in the road? Do you
have any idea of any grading that might go on?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: The grading is being covered by the
developer - they'll do the grading. I believe that he should
address that question about how much.. Under general improve-
ments with a developer, the way the City has operated in the
past, the developer performs a site grading to his specifica-
tions and then the City builds the street to match the grade
that he grades. That seems to work out much better. As Mr.
Laughinghouse indicated, he is ready to conduct his grading
. operation to preserve as many trees as possible. Obviously, I
think that in any grading operation, as far as trees and as far
as the street is concerned, you can expect at least the right-
of-way to be cleared of trees.
MR. WALTER DUNNETT, 1541 Oak Avenue: When you say lot -
would that be the 95 foot expanse?
MR. POPOVICH: An average lot.
MR. WALTER DUNNETT: Our property is running along the
left side - the west side of old Snelling there - we have
that land and the pond in there and the railroad tracks. So
it's probably roughly 300 feet of land, I guess, plus the pond.
So I'm obviously interested in what we're talking about there.
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: He could develop three lots. There
. would be three unit assessments across that property.
If you develop two, they'd obviously be
MR. DUNNETT:
bigger, but would that be two unit assessments or would it
still be for 95 or 100 feet or whatever it is?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: I suppose that would be two. I
guess it's a question of how many on the frontage and the
. character. By the time you get into this area here, it's
getting rather low.
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MR. DUNNETT: Is it physically possible to make three lots
out of that?
.' MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: It's physically possible. I believe
it would be recommended to assess for three lots. If it isn't
physically possible to make three lots, the other recommenda-
tion would be for two.
MR. DUNNETT: That would be sewer and water, not street?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Right.
MR. DUNNETT: That sewer line is coming under the road
.there on an angle. That would, I assume, come in on the south
side of the pond.
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: This is the pond, roughly. It
would be in the location - somewhere in this vicinity - you
would probably have to get some type of an easement to place a
sewage pumping station in that location. I believe the right-
of-way is very restricted there because they've widened the
road so much. So it's really the only logical place that we
have to locate a sewage pumping station. This site is loaded
with utilities right now.
MRS. DONNA HATCH, 3632 North Pascal: You're talking about
putting in all of these sewers and.stuff - how will that affect
. us? We have our sewer, our water, our street. Will we be
assessed for any of this? I know there has to be some kind of
sewer thing (inaudible) . What's going to happen?
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: Can you show me where that would be?
MRS. HATCH: I live in the last house on the right.
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: It appears that you have sewer and
water facilities.
MRS. HATCH: We have a deadend watermain.
MR. CHRISTOFFERSEN: That's correct. That would continue
as such. There would be no proposal to carry that through
and make a loop out of that system. The only question that
the Council may wish to consider is the assessment for the
. improvement of the turn-around on the end. I don't know how
that would be spread up and down the property line. That's
the only potential. I guess that cost was just added into the
overall road construction cost. We did not assume, in our
report, any unit assessment being on Pascal Avenue. There
again, that's something the Council would have to consider at
the time of the assessment hearing.
. MR. POPOVICH: Let's point that .out. They are included
in the improvement hearing, but they weren't computed a cost
on the big lot size. The north end of Pascal Avenue does have
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some street costs and a watermain cost in there that could be
spread and the total amount of it is small, but it is something
4It that could be, depending on the assessment hearing, spread
between "E" and up Pascal. The full amount of it, the engi-
neer can't tell us at this time because it is a very nominal
portion of the overall $648,000. If you look at your feasi-
bility report, I think on page 6, there's a cost of $1500.00,
or something like that in there - page 6 of your summary of
costs - there's a cost in there for the north end of Pascal
Avenue. I just didn't want the people to think there was
going to be no cost at all. Obviously, you wouldn't be assessed
again for sewer and water if they already have it, but if there
has been some sort of improvement and they get a benefit, that
would come up at the assessment hearing.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Mr. Popovich likes to leave all of his
avenues open. The assessment hearing, of course, will occur
at some later date, after the project.
MAN FROM AUDIENCE: Maybe we should include repainting
the deadend street signs so we wouldn't have so much traffic.
WOMAN FROM AUDIENCE: Yes. Do something about those dead-
end street signs.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Yes, I know. I live on the end of one
myself and I think it invites people to come down to see what
. is there.
MAN FROM AUDIENCE: To see what a deadend looks like.
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~ STOUTENBURG, JR., 1435 West County Road E: What's
considered a low lying area? I do a lot of cross country
skiing back there and I've noticed on lots 5 and 6 that there's
a pond in there that has about five feet of water in it at one
time, but this past summer it was all dried up. I noticed you
don't have that shown as a low lying area. The developer said,
I think, that the development on - I can't read it very well -
11 and 12 there and 1 and 2 over there - they don't know if
they're going to develop there. I was assuming that 5 and 6
were the same as 11 and 12 and 1 and 2.
MAYOR WOODBURN: This 5 and 6 - there are two of them up
there. The northern 5 and 6?
~ MR. STOUTENBURG: Yes. (Inaudible). There's a low lying
area that has had five feet of water in there at one time.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: He is correct. There is a small,
intermittent pond - it might be more like 6 and 7 - but it's
in that neighborhood. That would be filled. I do have the
preliminary plans which, maybe after the meeting; we can talk
. with the neighbors and show them all the details that you've
been over in past meetings.
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MAYOR WOODBURN: I think they deserve to see it. Maybe
you would want to show them - we could put it up here.
. MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: I hope everyone can see this. The
lighter lines are the topography that is in place and the
darker lines are grading that we're going to accomplish. As an
example, from here - Snelling - there would be a cut along the
road and, in partial answer to the tree question, we will leave
this slope as steep as we can, leaving as many trees as we can.
The ultimate home buyer/builder will set out the trees and
driveway as necessary. When you come around here, this gets
into a fill. This is the pond that you mentioned. There will
be some fill around here. Then here, this is where there is
.a sharp slope here - we intend to fill back this far and these
become (inaudible) all backing up on the pond. The actual
pond is right in here. When I talked about this being low,
it's only low to where the road is. So in order to - if we
wanted to actually improve this or put a cul-de-sac down here
or something like that - it would take an immense amount of
grading, andwe're just not going to do that. This is going to
remain larger lots. (Inaudible conversation between those
looking at the map.) A little bit of grading here and a
little bit of grading to accomplish this road. Now, the tree
line is right here, so the edge of the roadway goes right up
the tree line here - I hope everyone can see that - and, of
course, we have to cut through the trees right here. We cut
out this section of the road just for that reason, plus we
. like cul-de-sac lots - deadend lots.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I recognize this isn't really part of the
storm sewer, etc. , but we'll still answer any questions. Any
further questions?
MR. ADOLPH MILLER, 3609 North Pascal: Why couldn't we
put up a deadend street there and save that extra assessment?
MAYOR WOODBURN: neadend street on Wesley?
MR. MILLER: On Pascal.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Well, it's a deadend without the hammer-
head. We haven't said there would be an assessment for that.
There could be, perhaps. There are several reasons that this
has been considered to be put in. One of them is fire protec-
. tion. They don't like things where they can't back up and
get out of the way - get trapped, and things like this. The
second reason for it is snow storage. Those are. two that I
can think of right off hand.
MR. MAX STOUTENBURG, 1435 West County Road E: Is there
a limited time, once they develop this land, before all the
housing and stuff has to be built in there? Or can he develop
. it and ten years later maybe the final housing will be built
in there?
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MAYOR WOODBURN: That's right.
. MR. STOUTENBURG: So just because they're going through and
putting this - first they want to sell the lots and if they
sell a lot, someday somebody can build on it, but I've seen
some lots where five people will go and buy a lot and just keep
it for a lot - they never do build on it.
MAYOR WOODBURN: There's not too much we can do about
that, We can't force somebody into something.
MR. STOUTENBURG: When that project originally started,
I was thinking a developer was going to go in there and actually
build the houses and the whole works and just sell the houses
and the lots all together.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: May I speak to that, Mr. Mayor? In
the first place, all the lots that are in place are part of the
plat that was platted in the 1930's. That plat goes right
across our property. In other words, if you stay after this
hearing, we'll get some more maps up here - this road, although
it's only paved to here, is platted and the City owns the road
all the way straight up to here, it runs around here, and it's
platted and comes right back down. There are lots - here's
one of them - and they run right straight up there and they
stack right up here and so forth~ Those lots that are under
there have been there since the 1930's. Nobody can force a
. developer to build a house. But, a lot of money has gone into
this already and more money is going to go into it and assess-
ments will have to be paid, so if pressured - there will be
pressure for it to be developed.
MR. S TOUTENB URG: I guess my concern is - how long am I
going to have to listen to hammers pounding back there? AmI
going to have to listen to it for ten years?
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: I sure wouldn't want to promise.
You're right - someone may buy a lot for the investment. In
Mendota Heights, a party bought two lots - built a house on
one and within a year they sold the other lot for a profit.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Pretend they're woodpeckers.
MR. STOUTENBURG: If the price of fuel keeps going up,
. I'll buy the lot just for the wood.
MR. POPOVICH: I hope we don't run into this too much,
because some of us can remember in St. Paul - in the Highland
Park area - they put in streets, curbs, gutters and everything
and it all went tax delinquent. That whole Highland Park area.
The City ended up selling lots at tax forfeited sale. When
you go back in history, you can have some situations that are
. bad examples of what could happen.
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MAYOR WOODBURN: Over-extension. I guess we can't tell
somebody how to run their business.
. MRS. RHODA BEHR, 1401 West County Road E: We live on the
corner of County Road E and Wesley. This new road is going
right down the side of our house. We don't need that road.
We have a road in front of our house. We won't go down that
road. will we be assessed for that road since it's going
right down the side of our lot?
MAYOR WOODBURN: On the lot that that house stands on,
there are no improvements going in that improve your property.
In other words, you have water, you have sewer.
MRS. BEHR: I'm talking about the road that's going down
the side of our house. We won't be assessed for the road,
will we?
MAYOR WOODBURN: I can I t answer that because thisisn I.t
the assessment hearing, but the general rule, as Mr. Popovich
keeps telling us, is that if property is improved by an improve-
ment, you can assess it. If it's not improved, you can't.
Normally, (inaudible) roads and things like this are not con-
sidered an improvement to.the property, at least not like a
road that serves them.
MRS. BEHR: I was once told that once you pay your assess-
. ments, you're not taxed again for them.
COUNCILMAN McALLISTER: Unless they have new ones and
they redo the road.
MAYOR WOODBURN: You were never assessed for County Road
E.
MRS. BEHR: No.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I haven't answered your question and I
don't think I can at this point. Are there any other ques-
tions? If there are no more questions about this, we will
close the public hearing and go on to any questions that the
Council may have.
COUNCILMAN McALLISTER: How far are we supposed to go on
. this tonight? On the agenda here it says "ordering prepara-
tion of plans and specifications". I'm concerned about the
developer's agreement.
MR. POPOVICH: Obviously, if the Council orders the
improvement tonight, you would order it and then plans and
specs would be prepared for bid letting. Between now and the
time we sell bonds would be for the formulation of the develop-
. ment agreement that you negotiate with the developer.
COUNCILMAN McALLISTER: We don't need that first?
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MR. POPOVICH: You don't need it first. You're leverage
is - if he doesn't agree with you, you don't order the plans
. and specs to be advertised. Obviously, if the development
agreement was done now - assuming the improvement went ahead -
you'd know what it was. I don't know what else you want to
put in a development agreement because there are a number of
things that do go into it that your counsel recommends. But
if we ordered the improvement, then he started on plans and
specs to call for bids, we wouldn't have to approve the plans
and call for the bids _ because that's additional cost - until
that development agreement is in place.
MAYOR WOODBURN: In this case, ordering the improvement
is similar to ordering the plans and specifications. In this
type of situation, a possible assessment situation, we have
different terminOlogy.
MR. POPOVICH: Mayor, may I ask - do we have a petition
on this? The reason I ask, I notice Maurice just left and
normally you need four votes and then three if it's 35% peti-
tioned.
MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: We did petition
MR. POPOVICH: I want the record to show - Mr. Laughing-
house, who controls more than 35% of the affected property -
your company - petitioned for it.
. MR. LAUGHINGHOUSE: Yes sir.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Is it 35%?
MR. POPOVICH: 35% of the affected property within the
improvement. Obviously, there's more land than just his, but
it's obvious, when you look at his addition compared to the
others, that's more than 35%. That permits you to go ahead
with three votes out of five instead of four out of five.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Any questions from the Council? I have
another question or two of Mr. Popovich. You indicated that
assessments can proceed for various years. Can they be done
in various manners on different parcels - lots, for instance,
within an improvement, and linear footage without?
. MR. POPOVICH: Yes. So long as you arrive at what you
feel is the increased market value due to the benefits. We
come back to that old rule again. Formulas are only a way to
get at the benefit. You can use any kind of a formula or
approach, so long as the property is benefitted accordingly.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I don't think I have any more questions.
Mr. Popovich and Mr. Christoffersen have nothing more to add,
. I gather, at this point. We have at this point our options -
we can continue this for another meeting, we can order the
impro vemen t, or we can say no to the whole project.
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COUNCILMAN McALLISTER then introduced the. following resolu-
4It. tion and moved its adoption:
Resolution No. 81-85
RESOLUTION ORDERING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF IMPROVEMENT NO. SS-W-P-ST-81-3
UNDER AND PURSUANT TO
MINNESOTA STATUTES, CHAPTER 429
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Arden Hills,
Minnesota, that in accordance with the provisions of Minnesota
Statutes 1961, Chapter 429, as amended, the Council held a
public hearing on the proposed construction of Improvement No.
SS-W-P-ST-8l-3, consisting of the ,installation of sanitary
sewer, watermain, bituminous paving, concrete curb and gutter,
necessary drainage facilities and necessary appurtenances in
the general area bounded by S.T.H. 51 on the east, County Road
E on the south, the west line of Sec. 27 on the west, and the
Soo Line Railroad right of way on the north, as described in
the Notice of Hearing at a cost presently estimated at
$648,665.00, and substantially in accordance with the prelimi-
nary report as to the feasibility thereof which is now on file
in the office of the Clerk Administrator; and having considered
the views of all interested persons and being fully advised in
the premises, the Council does hereby determine and order that
said improvement shall be constructed and financed, and special
~ assessments shall be levied therefor, pursuant to said Chapter
429, and that the area proposed to be assessed therefor shall
include the property as described in the Notice of Hearing.
The City Public Works Director is directed to prepare and
submit to the Council the final plans and specifications.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution
was duly seconded by Councilman Hollenhorst, and upon vote
being taken thereon, the following voted in favor thereof: All;
and the following voted against the same: None; whereupon
said resolution was. declared duly passed and adopted.
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Extract of Minutes of Meeting
of City Council
. City of Arden Hills
Ramsey County, Minnesota
November 30, 1981
Pursuant to due call and notice thereof, a regular meeting
of the City Council of the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota, was
held in the City Hall in said City on Monday, November 30, 1981,
at 7:30 o'clock p.m.
The following members were present: Mayor Woodburn and
Councilmen Johnson, McAllister and Hollenhorst: and the fol-
lowing was absent: Councilman Wingert.
Also present were Donald Lamb, City Treasurer: Donald
Christoffersen of Short-Elliott-Hendrickson, Inc., City Engi-
neers; Dorothy Zehm, Deputy Clerk; and Peter S. Popovich of
- . Peterson, Popovich, Knutson & Flynn, City Bond Consultant.
MAYOR WOODBURN: We'll move now to the 7:30 hearing - the
public hearing on the Ramsey County Lexington Avenue project.
I believe we have the honorable engineer from Ramsey County
with us tonight. Would you like to explain this?
MR. WAYNE LEONARD, Ramsey County Public Works Department,
Coordinating Engineer: We have put together a proposal for the
improvement of Lexington Avenue,-essentially from Grey Fox, or
Island Lake Road, north across 694, up through "F" to the south
entrance of Control Data's main entrance, the south entrance.
The proposal basically is for a 68 foot wide roadway, face to
face, concrete cur~ and gutter, which is exactly the same road-
way that is immediately south of Island Lake Road, across the
railroad tracks and down to "E". That is, one that provides
. for two lanes north bound and south bound, with a center left
turn lane without any medians in it. That is t~e proposal -
to extend that section on up to the Control Data driveway.
The project would involve some minor storm sewer appur-
tenances to the present storm sewer under construction, filling
some ditches with boulevards, planting some trees on the boule-
vards. It would also involve a detached bituminous path on
. the east side, connecting with the path now that ends at the
south of the YMCA, and continuing on to the north end of the
project.
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The project is essentially anticipated to be financed with
County, State and highway gas tax receipts and'funds appor-
. tioned to Ramsey County. We estimate the cost of the project
to be $1,213,760.60. That's our engineer's estimate. We'll
take bids and prices will change. Of the total cost of the
project, the County anticipates that $18,556.85 will come out
of County road bridge funds for the construction of the detached
bituminous path. We have asked the City of Shoreview for
$23,619.75, on the basis of our estimate, for essentially some
$19,000 worth of curb and gutter - participation for the con-
crete curb and gutter - and $4200.00 worth of utility improve-
ments which they have asked to have included in the plans.
The plans have been presented to Shoreview, they have reviewed
them, I believe they're looking into some financial aspects as
to how they're going to fund their share of this project. We
anticipate they may approve it at their next Council meeting
next week.
The Arden Hills participation in the project that we're
asking for is estimated at $18,896.06, based on 75% of the
cost of the curb and gutter adjacent to the Arden Hills
properties. We have also asked that the City participate in
the acquisition of any right-of-ways that may be necessary
or easements required as part of the construction project.
I believe, if I could just quickly review it, I think what
we're proposing here is to continue the section south of Grey
. Fox, down around the railroad tracks and "Ell there, on across
694 and up through "F", and up as far as the Control Data
entrance. A companion to that is a project ,that will provide
new traffic signals at "F" that are traffic actuated. That's
a separate project, to be constructed simultaneously with this.
There is essentially, to my knowledge, no real controversial
issues with the project. I think the only place that there is
some concern is that the existing bridge presently is 52 feet
wide and it makes provision for two lanes across 694 - two lanes
in each direction. It would be preferable to have two lanes
in each direction, plus a left turn lane for those two ramps
there. I think the biggest problem is the fact that we're pro-
posing this eight foot bituminous path and it comes to the
bridge without what we consider adequate provision to get
pedestrians across.. With that concern in mind, we have been
working with the highway department to provide a separate ten
foot wide pedestrian facility on the east side of the widened
. bridge, along with widening the bridge enough to provide for a
left turn lane.
This project has not developed to the point where we
have scheduled the construction. It cannot be scheduled, I
don't believe, to coordinate with this construction, but we
are working towards what we see as a bottleneck in here - that
is, the bridge over 694 - and the numerous left turns that are
. made, either onto the ramp to go west or onto the ramp to 694
to go east. If the project, meets with the City of Shoreview's
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and the City of Arden Hills' approval and agreements are exe-
cuted, we anticipate that we will be able to get the Minnesota
. Department of Transportion and County Board approval in time
to start construction first thing next spring. Our time
schedule right now would be to submit to the Department of
Transportation in the middle of December and the County Board
in February, take bids in March and award a contract in April
and anticipate construction in early spring. We would esti-
mate that by Labor Day the project would be sufficiently com-
pleted that bituminous surface would be restored for driving
and that by Thanksgiving, the sod, trees and everything else
would be planted and the road fully operational a year from
today. If there are any questions, your Honor, I'd be happy
to answer them.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I'm sure there will be. You said the
width - I don't know (inaudible) on the number of lanes.
MR. WAYNE LEONARD: It's 68 feet. That's provided for
two lanes going north, two lanes going south, and that 14 feet
down the middle for left turns. The only medians would be the
ones right at the 694 ramps. On either end of the ramps
there is a piece of median - this brown thing here. Other
than that, there are no medians proposed except - well, there
is a little tiny piece right at - controlling left turns right
at "F" and another one right at the end of the Control Data
driveway. If you're familiar with the short piece that you
. have in there now, it's a continuation of the exact same
(inaudible) .
MAYOR WOODBURN: That's your initial explanation, at
least, of the project. Thank you. We'll probably have a few
more questions coming up. First I'd like to ask the Clerk
Administrator - has this project, as described, been published?
DEPUTY CLERK ZEHM: Yes, it has, in the New Brighton
Bulletin on November 19 and 26, 1981. We also have the
Certificate of Mailing on file.
MR. POPOVICH: Mayor and Members of the Council, the pro-
cedural aspects relating to publication and mailing have been
properly handled. So far as my part is concerned, out of the
total cost that the" Ramsey County people have indicated it
would be, the Arden Hills' portion amounts to $18,900 roughly,
. to which we've added $5,000 as a total cost, and it was pub-
lished at a total cost of $23,900.00. The extra $5,000 was
added as a judgmental cost that the engineer, the clerk's
office and ourselves added to it because that's how much Ramsey
County wants to get, and there are some additional costs that
the City has to bear. While they expect you to pay 75% of the
cost of the curb and gutter in Arden Hills, they also expect
the easement cost as well_ Those costs, at this time, we do
. not know what they are. The engineer's report indicates that
they should be nominal on the affected property owners because
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of the benefit that would be received. Assuming then a total
cost of $23,900, there are 3600 feet of assessable abutting
. property and if you were to assess that cost 100%, it would run
to $6.65 for the assessable footage on the property within
Arden Hills. Obviously, the purpose of the hearing tonight is
to determine the feasibility if we're going to assess and if
we're going to assess 100%. If the council decides not to go
the assessment route and pay for it out of general funds or
some other thing, then obviously we wouldn't include it in any
financing. If it's going to go the assessment route, then
obviously we want a maximum situation presented at the public
hearing tonight. As you know, we're planning a bond issue
sometime in February, assuming all of these projects that are
presently under consideration finally materialize, so that we
know what the total bond issue would be. If we have to
finance it, that's the amount that we would finance over a 15
year period, assessable at the maximum assessment rate per-
mitted by law, which would be 1% more than what we receive on
the bonds, but not exceeding 12%. Obviously, an assessment
hearing would be held probably next fall, after the project
is in or substantially completed. So there would be no
assessments commencing until the year 1983. At this particular
point, assuming it's an assessment approach, that's the pur-
pose of the hearing tonight. If the Council decides to waive
all assessments and pick it up with some other funds, that's
a judgment decision you can make'at a later date.
MAYOR WOODBURN: We can decide to go through the assess-
~ ment procedure and later on still decide not to assess it at
all, or in part, or up to $6.65.
MR. POPOVICH: That's right.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Mrs. Zehm, are there any written ques-
tions?
DEPUTY CLERK ZEHM: I do not have any.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I will open the meeting now to public
comments. They may be either for or against.
MR. MAX STOUTENBURG, 1435 West County Road E: I would
like to know if and when they do plan on widening that bridge.
You're saying right now that the bridge isn't actually part of
that proposed plan at the present. So it will go through just
tt like the County Road E plan did, where they left a two lane
bridge and a four lane on either side. When do ~hey plan on
putting the bridge in if they don't plan on doing it now?
MR. WAYNE LEONARD: The present bridge, the way the
thing is being utilized, it's basically a two lane bridge -
one in each direction. As part of this project, we would
widen the roadway off the end of the bridge so that we would
~ have four lanes - that is, two lanes in each direction. The
remaining problem, as I see it - that probably will be adequate
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to carry the traffic, if it wasn't for the people blocking up
the center lanes for left turns to ramps, and if it wasn't for
. the lack of an adequate facility for the path across the
bridge. We are working with the Highway Department - we're
going to have a four lane bridge, which is going to be better.
I think it's going to operate a lot more efficiently than the
system that we have out there right now. As far as the project
with the Department of Transportation - it's a cooperative
project to widen the bridge, to accommodate the left turn
people, and the bike facility. We're working on that. They
have given us some indication that they want to see it as part
of this project, that is, incorporate it with it. We said
fine, we think it's a great project, but the timing isn't the
best, and that we're going to have to proceed with this
project. If the other one could catch up - fine. If it can't,
it could certainly come the following year. I cannot really
give you an answer on the timing on that. It's part of the
interstate system funding in there, and where federal funds
are available, the whole thing gets a little bit hard to tie
down until you get some answers here (inaudible) .
MR. STOUTENBURG: What do they plan on doing with the
traffic flow when they're doing the work?
MR. WAYNE LEONARD: I think we will attempt to carry
traffic as much as possible through the construction. I
believe that we will ask for stage construction - that is, we
. will do this work down here on the south end and then this
work on the north end and not tear up the whole thing at once.
The contractor will be asked to provide for some type of
traffic handling in the area. We do think that it may be
advisable to consider shutting down part of the interchange
for a period of time - a couple of weeks at some point, or
three weeks - to really get in there and do the work. In the
long run, that may be the least cumbersome to the people.
The proposal is basically to have the contractor handle it,
with limitations as to what he can do.
MR. STOUTENBURG: The only reason I'm concerned is that
I work for Control Data and I have to travel that way every
day. My main concern up there is the traffic jam we have now
with Land O'Lakes up there and all the other (inaudible) .
ESpecially County Road F and Lexington - that's really a mess.
. MR. LEONARD: That's a great part of what has precipitated
this project - the need there because of all the people in the
area. You can say it anyway you want, but we're. going to have
to suffer through one construction season to get an improvement
that's going to work for a good many years to come.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Any further comments or questions? We
will close the public hearing then at 7:55 p.m. and turn it
. back to the Council. Does the Council have any questions?
Mr. Christoffersen?
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COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: Let's assume that eventually we could
do something with that bridge over 694. Is it your intention
. then to widen it sufficiently enough to provide five lanes,
plus pedestrian?
MR. LEONARD: That's correct.
COUNCILMAN JOHNSON: So if you ever do something with it,
it will ultimately match the rest of the profile on Lexington?
MR. LEONARD: That's the proposal at this point, yes.
In fact, it will be 72 feet instead of 68 (inaudible).
MAYOR WOODBURN: County Road E is apparently not going to
have its bridge changed. We've asked for it before, and it's
not (inaudible) enough to have a priority, not even a low
priority. Anything further fro~ the Council?
COUNCILMAN McALLISTER: I've asked you before - eventually,
where the plans (inaudible) north on Lexington - you're taking
it up to the driveway at Control Data. Then what?
MR. LEONARD: Our original proposal here, a few years back,
was to improve it all the way to Trunk Highway 96. First of
all, this improvement, the width of this improvement, was
anticipated to narrow down as soon as we got on top of the hill
there by the next entrance to Control Data, .to a 52 foot road-
. way, more nearly similar to Lexington Avenue to the south.
Because the gas tax receipts have held rather constant on a
cents-per-gallon income and construction costs have gone up
considerably, we have cut this project back this far. We do
not presently have scheduled when we will be able to fund the
next piece on up to 96. But it's still in our program, it's
something we would like to do, but the money just isn't there.
(Inaudible) maybe this will bring in some additional funds.
Construction costs have gone up faster than the receipts, and
we just cut the project down. Someday maybe. This isn't for-
gotten.
MAYOR WOODBURN: What are your traffic projections on
Lexington? Do you think they'll change with this? If so,
where would they subtract from, if anyplace?
MR. LEONARD: We don't anticipate that this project will
be subtracting any numbers of traffic, with the exception
. probably of Victoria, where people may be getting off Victoria
and going around and corning through "F" from that direction.
There may be some influence seen (inaudible). We anticipate
increased traffic here, but what's happening is Control Data
and Deluxe Check and Land O'Lakes - as the development in the
area that is being served here at 694 and off of "E" - that
is building up the traffic increase. We don't anticipate a
. gr7at deal of tra~fic corning off of other. roads that are
be1ng used (1naud1ble). We see the need 1S there now. The
road is overloaded. There .is every indication that additional
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pressure will be put on the road as additional things are de-
veloped in the area. Hopefully it will help Victoria a little
. bit for a while. As soon as that development spreads to the
east, Victoria will have its own problems.
MAYOR WOODBURN: What's happened on Lexington south of
there, with the traffic flow?
MR. LEONARD: We haven't projected any significant change
from before we reconstructed this. We haven't noticed any
differences. People have become accustomed to the geometry
and we haven't noticed any real complaints lately. In fact,
it seems like when you drive it that there are fewer cars out
there.
MAYOR WOODBURN: I don't drive it since it was improved.
MR. LEONARD: I think it's just a sensation - the lanes
are farther apart and you have the feeling that there aren't
as many cars, but if you count them they are still there.
MAYOR WOODBURN: There's a sensation of quite a few more
stoplights on there too.
MR. LEONARD: We added two more.
MAYOR WOODBURN: Any further questions? We have then an
. authorization from the County to execute an agreement between
the County and Arden Hills, authorizing the improvement and
the fact that the County will pay - that we will pay 75% of
the curbs. I think you probably have that agreement, or have
seen it. We have our choice of several things. We can defer
it - there's no immediate push on it. However, since we have
considered it tonight, we might want to go ahead on it. We
can go ahead on it if we do want to, with the attorney's
approval. I don't think we have the formal approval on that
yet. Or we can just go ahead and authorize the agreement.
I have a copy of it here, and it's essentially just to go
ahead and do the road and we'll pay for 75% of the curb and
gutter. I don't think there's anything more than that. Plus
the very small areas of easement that might be required.
COUNCILMAN HOLLENHORST: I move that we authorize and
execute the Arden Hills-Ramsey County agreement, subject to
the attorney's approval. Councilman Johnson seconded the
It motion, which carried unanimously.
After further discussion, Councilman Johnson introduced
the following resolution and moved its adoption:
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Resolution No. 81- 84
. RESOLUTION ORDERING THE CONSTRUCTION
OF IMPROVEMENT NO. P-81-4
UNDER AND PURSUANT TO
MINNESOTA STATUTES, CHAPTER 429
BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Arden Hills,
Minnesota, that in accordance with the provisions of Minnesota
Statutes 1961, Chapter 429, as amended, the Council held a
public hearing on the proposed construction of Improvement No.
P-81-4, consisting of the installation of concrete curb and
gutter on all that property abutting and west of Lexington
Avenue between County Road E and Victoria Street, being done
in conjunction with Ramsey County's improvement of Lexington
Avenue, as described in the Notice. of Hearing at a cost
presently estimated at $23,900.00, and substantially in accor-
dance with the preliminary report as to the feasibility there-
of which is now on file in the office of the City Clerk Admin-
istrator; and having considered the views of all interested
persons and being fully advised in the premises, the Council
does hereby determine and order that said improvement shall be
constructed and financed, and special assessments shall be
levied therefor, pursuant to said Chapter 429, and that the
area proposed to be assessed therefor shall include the
property as described in the Notice of Hearing. The City
Consulting Engineer is directed to prepare and submit to the
. Council the final plans and specifications.
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution
was duly seconded by Councilman Hollenhorst, and upon roll
call vote being taken thereon, the following voted in favor
thereof: All; and the following voted against the same: None;
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.
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