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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 13, 2019 Page 12 Mayor Roe asked what is the ideal yard size that the City would be looking at, noting several options were talked about. He wanted to get an idea of what the City would want to do. Mr. Trudgeon stated from the report, right now the City has about four acres and about 1.35 acres are used for yard and the report recommends anywhere from 2.75 to 3.75 acres and maybe up to four acres for the yard. If the yard were big- ger, it would allow for a lot of expansion space in the future as needed. Mr. Culver stated it is recommended four acres for yard space with another 2.5 to three acres for the building itself. He stated if the City got an eight-acre site with a hundred thousand square foot building on it, staff would be thrilled but he did think the way staff does its current operations to be able to expand to something of that size would serve them well over a long period of time. Councilmember Groff suggested the City could go higher with a building and wondered how high up would be feasible for office space. Mr. Culver stated for Roseville, it is not a matter or needing more office space in the maintenance facility, it is about vehicle storage. The city of Richfield actually does have a two-story garage with a very expensive elevator that is used to move equipment. He indicated if there is enough grade to the land the building could be built with an upper and lower drive out as well. Mayor Roe commented on page 204 there is a chart of the different comparable cities and the square miles of the city and population with a wide range of build- ing square footage and number of bays that does not seem to necessarily automat- ically correspond with the population or square miles of the city. But he would think with more population and size, like cities such as Eden Prairie, must have tons of equipment to handle all of those streets and pathways and so why is Eden Prairie only at 77,000 square feet. Mr. Culver stated the chart states a main building so there is a possibility that the city has an annex for additional equipment storage that is not listed. Mr. Trudgeon clarified the largest cities on the chart, Eden Prairie and Blooming- ton, it is noted has multiple maintenance facilities that hold their equipment. To get the conversation going, Mayor Roe proposed considering the approximately 8 acres north of Woodhill Drive for a new public works facility and yard, perhaps constructed in stages over time, with recognition of the existing license center facility in the strip center, with the City then able to figure out a future use for the current public works building and yard after that.