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good evening
call the regular city council meeting to
order for Tuesday February 18th 2025
please rise and join me in the Pledge of
Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America and
to the Republic for which it stands one
nation under God indivisible with
liberty and justice for
all welcome everyone
is there any additions or corrections to
the
agenda we have one addition to the
agenda Mr Mayor it is item 6K lifetime
change orders number 14 and 15 all
righty I'll move the approval of the
agenda with item 6K added is there a
second second all in favor signify by
saying I I I opposed we have an agenda
first item up presentations
proclamations and
acknowledgements but before we start
this
um with this item tonight I'd like to
take a moment to acknowledge and support
our neighbors in Burnsville who are
honoring the lives of three Public
Safety officers who lost their lives in
the line of duty one year ago today
police officer Paul
elmander Matthew
rugi and firefighter paramedic Adam
finseth all three paid the ultimate
sacrifice while working to save the
lives of seven children
in addition I'd like to acknowledge the
bravery and experience of our Rosemont
officers who assisted on seeing that day
sergeant Shan
mcmanamy police officer anest amovic
police officer Trevor
Wagner today let us honor the memories
of Paul Matthew and Adam with a moment
of silence
thank
you we know there is an inherent risk
involved in The Honorable profession of
a public safety officer as we sit here
in the chamber full of police officers
and their families I want to remind you
of the pride and gratitude we have for
the work you
do I want to REM uh I know this
sentiment is felt both in this room and
throughout the Rosemont
Community thank you for your
service with that I'd like to turn it
over to Chief dalstrom for our next item
on the
agenda thank you mayor members of the
council I appreciate that moment of
silence for Burnsville brother and
sisters over there um it's tough day for
them and a lot of us in this room and I
appreciate you guys taking time to do
that so um on a lighter note we are
going to welcome our newest member to
the department uh that recently passed
probation and that is Officer clay
morgal um in the fall of 20123 the
police department conducted a hiring
process for a police officer position
and fortunately clay applied and was
selected to start in January of 2024 as
badge
3572 born and raised in Burnsville clay
grew up as one of four boys
he attended High School in Burnsville
graduating 2018 and he balanced
full-time work with his studies at
Normandale Community and After High
School balanced full-time work with his
studies at Normandale Community College
he demonstrated both a strong commitment
to his education and his career
development clay has a solid background
in security having worked two years for
Target and two years for Al following
graduation with an associates degree in
law enforcement he then completed his
skills training at Hen Technical College
and during this training he served roll
Mount as a community service officer for
nearly a year be before being promoted
to police officer uh Clay is another
shining example from our from our CSO
program and I just want to point that
out that um you know it's been more and
more difficult to find Qualified
applicants in the law enforcement
profession and what the CSO program
allows us to do is see a person's work
ethic how they respond to feedback their
punctuality how they treat members of
the community um that kind of stuff over
over a much longer period of time and uh
he he knocked it out the park he made it
so clear that he was the person that we
should be hiring um that it it it just
shows how important that program is for
us clay had a lifelong passion for law
enforcement and always wanted to pursue
his a career as a police officer he
values strong work ethic and strives to
be a good human first in all of his
interactions in his personal time he
enjoys spending quality time with his
loved ones watching movies and planning
his wedding with his fiance
Hattie he reports that he's honored to
Joy join our team and excited to serve
this
community I as has become tradition I
want to point out a couple examples of
um Clay's work over the last year so as
you know they go through a one-year
probationary period after being hired
and he recently completed that last
month um in the last year he's done a
ton of stuff but I picked out um three
that jumped out at me this first one you
know he he talks about being a good
human first and I think that this
example is one that that demonstrates
that he puts his money where um puts
puts his money where his mouth is so um
officer morgel and other officers
working tonight on December 15 2024
responded to a call this is from a one
of our residents responded to a call at
my residence when a vehicle took out my
entire fence along con Avenue all of the
responding officers and the firefighters
spent at least an hour cleaning up the
debris more importantly the officers
quickly found and pursued the driver who
damaged the fence he fled to Burnsville
where he was apprehended rosmont police
department and fire department really
came through for us tonight please pass
on our thanks to all the First
Responders who are on scene so we've got
a mission statement that talks about not
just enforcing laws but assisting and
educating the public resolving problems
and this would be an example of that
that they could have just left the fence
where it was um but our staff took it
upon themselves to spend an hour
cleaning up the debris so that's an
extra form of service there and the type
of person that Clay is uh another
example on September 5th officers z boy
and morgal responded to a report of a
medical emergency on uh Banyon Lane
dispatch reported that a female was
having difficulty breathing upon their
arrival they quickly determined that the
Fe female was not breathing and did not
have a pulse they worked together and
immediately applied an AED while the
other began CPR a shock was delivered
and they continued CPR a short after a
short time they reassessed and
determined that the female had a pulse
but was still struggling to breathe
officer morgal applied oxygen began to
assist her in breathing while officers
the boy administered Naran the officers
continued uh coordinated medical efforts
with the line of ambulance and rosmont
fire and after a short time the female
had a strong pulse and was breathing
with limited
assistance and in the last example just
a month being off fto clay played in a
very a very important role in
apprehending a homicide suspect out of
Lakeville uh that suspect was on the Run
um and Clay was able to locate the
suspect's UN unoccupied vehicle on a
Rosemont neighborhood this provided a
strong starting point for the subsequent
search and successful app apprehension
of a dangerous suspect who was found in
a resident's backyard clay also
recognized and secured evidence that
would be important to Lakeville homicide
case so as you can see he's made a very
strong impact in the first year uh first
words I come to mind when I think of
clay are genuine and humble he's a he's
a a quiet guy from what I know maybe
that's not the case that night when
they're running around but um we are so
proud to have on on our team and uh
would you all please join and welcome
clay as the newest officer of police
depart all right and Clay who's going to
be pinning on your badge tonight I'm
over here all right so we'll start with
the uh the oath of office and
uh we'll do the badge pinning right
after
stes of the United
States the state of
Minnesota noge
duties of the office of the police
department city of
rosma and the county Dakota and the
state of Minnesota the state of
Minnesota to the best of to the best of
my judgement and ability help me
[Applause]
again nice job
you GNA say something
thanks very good app you guys all come
to support me so thanks a lot guys y
absolutely to the family and friends in
the room we are going to convene back at
the Rosemont Police Department this time
for the first time ever not the steeple
Center uh so we are excited for that and
we will get out of here so thank you
thank you Chief apprciate thank you
F young par now
all right as the last ones are filing
out here we do retain some people here
still in the meeting so we'll continue
to proceed we'll move on to item four
response to public comment this evening
I don't uh believe we have any responses
to provide and we'll move on to public
comment item five is there anyone
wishing to speak to councel on any item
not on the current meeting agenda if so
please step forward state your name name
and address at the podium the floor is
open good evening I uh I'm Mark enex I
live in uh on clar Downs path here in
Ros Mount I'm a member of the Rosemount
community band and I'm here representing
the community band and uh as part of
tonight's consent agenda I understand as
a uh approval hopefully the approval of
uh uh payment for uh a donation from the
city to the band to support a
commissioned piece and I just wanted to
thank you uh We've we're we're well into
our fundraising effort we're getting a
lot of the details put together and
we're targeting a uh near end of October
uh uh uh presentation and initial uh uh
release of that uh of that song so we've
got a composer underway who's composing
and this is to honor John chunky who's
been uh a key part of the music program
here in Ros mount for 30 plus years so
just wanted to thank you and so I
appreciate your uh the city support for
all these years since the ban started
back in 2008 and uh continues to to stay
strong today so thank you thank you
thank you thank
you anyone else wishing to come before
Council anyone else seeing no one then
we'll we'll close the public comment and
that completes item five we'll move on
to consent agenda item six uh this
evening we have Bill listings which uh
is where the uh donation information was
received we have minutes from the
January 30th February
4th uh regular work session regular and
work session uh January 30th was the
special work setting
proceding 6E in Municipal State a
mileage revisions which adds
canamera and let's see Aspen Avenue to
our Municipal state aid acceptance of
caramore Crossing first and second
additions request by Greg stener for
renewal of the permit for gravel request
by Maplewood development for amberfields
21st final plat the Prestwick Place 24th
Edition accepting those improvements a
donation acceptance from Merchants Bank
for $11,000 related to leprechaun days
community events and item 6K which was
added for the lifetime change order 14
and 15 essentially a
credit anyone wish to pull any items for
further discussion or comment no no
seeing none would someone like to move
the consent agendas a through K so moved
there a second second I have a motion by
Tyson second by cimple roll please esler
I clle I wiisel I Tyson I fry I that
completes six uh item six consent agenda
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passed this evening we have no public
hearings item seven nor unfinished
business number eight and for our item
under new business this evening the
request by Northwind test LLC for a
preliminary and final plat approval and
resoning of 60 Acres from 8 2 to B2 that
I'll turn it over to our community
development planner senior
planner thank you mayor um council
members uh the Planning Commission heard
and reviewed this item and held a public
hearing at its meeting on January 28th
uh before the council tonight are two
requests uh preliminary requests before
um uh any de development can occur on
that site uh reone of the site into
conformance with the city's
comprehensive plan as well as platting
of the site to uh split it off from the
greater Yore Park area and create two
buildable Lots as well as dedicate right
of way for a future or new 151st Street
East the site itself is 60.7 acres and
it's located immediately south of meta
data center project uh and west of
Blaine Avenue as you can see with the
existing conditions on the aerial photo
before you there is a private
university-owned roadway uh that runs
through the site that roadway will be uh
removed and replaced with the uh new
151st Street uh right of way that will
be dedicated with a plat which I will
show you a little further on here in my
presentation uh the city's comprehensive
land use plan uh designates this subject
parcel uh for business part development
uh the site is also within the city's uh
Municipal Urban Services area
boundary so the proposed rezoning uh
would be from its current agricultural
zoning District to uh B2
employment uh at this time there would
not be a PUD overlay uh as there is on
the meta data center site uh but that is
likely to occur to accommodate multiple
principal structures on a single parcel
the proposed plat uh that the Planning
Commission reviewed and found to be
consistent and in conformance with the
city's plan or um zoning code uh is
before you here as you can see there are
two buildable lots that would be created
the larger principal or main parcel
where the uh proposed uh North Wind
testing facility would be located uh as
well as a smaller uh parcel in the
northeast corner of the site uh for a
new sub station uh in addition to those
two is the 151st Street um uh RightWay
here uh so before you tonight are simply
the rezoning and the plat uh prior to
any additional development of the site
uh there would have to be um
entitlements such as a site plan review
uh for both the electrical substation as
well as uh the buildings within the main
test
facility the is proposing as I said uh
to build a testing facility uh doing um
wind tunnel type testing uh for
aerodynamics and propulsion the proposed
uh site plan um may very well differ
from this very preliminary site plan but
staff included it to provide a little
bit more um context for how the site
will be developed in the future uh a
couple things to note here uh until
development occurs to the West a
temporary uh easement to allow for a uh
culdesac uh will be constructed here uh
and then the main site itself will be
comprised of a number of buildings
containing those testing facilities in a
campus style development uh as well as
some uh presence of the University of
Minnesota uh on the site as well as I
said in order to allow for multiple
struct principal structures on a single
parcel a planned unit development will
need to be approved as well as any final
site and building plan plans uh for the
structures on the site at that time uh
the project will be reviewed for
conformance with the city code for
things like Building height setbacks
parking requirements and other
components uh within the city
code so uh as I said there are two
requests before the council tonight
staff and the Planning Commission are
recommending uh the council adopt an
ordinance to reone the site from
agricultural to employment
uh in conformance with the city's
comprehensive plan as well as adopting a
resolution approving the preliminary and
final plats of North Wind
addition um staff is happy to take any
questions the council may have uh the
applicant is present who would also
appreciate the opportunity to introduce
themselves and speak a little bit about
their proposed
project any immediate questions for Mr
num okay can you slighted back one all
right that's fine
and come forward
welcome thank you mayor thank you
Council I'm David Meer I'm the CEO of
Northwind excited to be here today um
again our company was formed in
1952 we've been um operating wind tunnel
facility in Plymouth Minnesota since uh
1960 we actually did testing for the
Apollo mission to the Moon in that
facility that was before 494 was built
there but we did
it um we're excited uh to design and
build and operate the Minnesota
Aerospace complex um in rosem mod it was
actually the original location of the
University of Minnesota Rosemount
aeronautical lab that actually did wind
tunnel testing from 1946 to 1962 and
we're going to be on a portion of the
land that they used and we'll be doing
Wind Tunnel testing again on the same
site home yeah
yeah so we're excited we really um we
are excited to do this wind tunnel
testing which will be used to develop
you know Aerospace Vehicles we have our
strong partnership with the University
of Minnesota they'll be doing the
modeling and simulation work um side by
side with us we think this will be a a
really critical um Research Center in
the US um going forward so excited to be
here today
great any questions any questions go
ahead
um so looking at the site plan I'm I'm
assuming all of these on the northeast
corner these are all parking spots right
yes how many roughly how many employees
are going to be employed at this
location so in the so we have three wind
tunnel facilities in the long run we
expect about a 100 employees in the long
term and then we'll have multiple
customers there'll be three wind tunnel
facilities so we'll have multiple
customers in at the same time as well
okay got it yep so the the number of
parking spots relatively accurate you're
going to need that many um I think so I
think we've laid that out okay yep all
right yeah again this is this is a
little bit of a preliminary because
we're still we're still defining the
requirements for the wind tunnels so
everything might change a little bit but
I think in general it's directionally
correct but about 100 employees what
what what's the makeup of those
positions all um it'll be Engineers
technicians um calibration experts
it'll be people doing the computational
work from the University of Minnesota
and then the building on the northeast
corner or up in the Northeast half the
engineering UVM what's the presence of
un what what's going to be the presence
in that building with from the they're
going to be doing the modeling and
simulation work so they'll have
researchers okay um you know we're
partnered with the the College of
Science and Engineering um so it'll be
researchers that really are are really
expert in the world at the modeling and
simulation side of this okay yep awesome
yeah thank you could you
uh uh couple questions I got the uh the
square footages that we're looking at
here so overall total development uh
what kind of square footages are we
looking at Jim you might have to come up
you know he's really asking how much
taxes okay yep yep 200 to
250,000 and roughly the overall
investment um anticipated the investment
is about $1 billion
that's always nice to have in your
backyard um the uh timeline schedule uh
roughly assuming this goes forward and
everything what what's your timeline SE
timeline is about a fiveyear timeline to
get all three facilities um up and
operational go ahead so just a follow-up
question so five years so you You' be
using the same Road off of 40 or off of
42 though that that meta is using
currently yep any issues with that with
their construction the next three years
no I think I mean it's nice they've
actually done some of the work to prep
it so I think it'll be good that we'll
be sort of following in their footsteps
you know we'll be doing our foundations
when their foundations are done so it'll
be actually a kind of good sequence of
timing okay I appreciate that yeah the
um back to the schedule um design
like CD level type things where you're
out to bid will be this year by the end
of this year yeah I mean so we're
working on the requirements of of the
facility so that's kind of the first
step and in parallel we're doing you
know there's there's work we can do on
the design of the site so we're doing
that in parallel so this is going to be
a real heavy design year um we would
like to break ground um yet the summer
though oh okay good that may be
ambitious but that's our goal always
always a good thing to be ambitious all
right any questions the rest
of uh I do have one for um Mr NCH can
you explain the uh dotted line on the
bottom near the bottom there it's uh
called out is the University of
Minnesota thousand foot heavy industrial
setback so that's a um setback that the
University of Minnesota has um placed
for any development on the site I could
defer to um Leslie creger with
University to uh explain that further um
but it is some of their um uh
limitations in place between their
different Parcels of land that they've
sold off on what can go where and how
close it can go to other stuff so I
guess maybe to help my confusion a
little bit is is that saying that
there's no heavy industrial south of
that line or my understanding that that
heavy industrial could not be any closer
to the data center than that line okay
okay to the north that's kind of the sou
and none of these buildings are heavy
industrial anyhow right it it's staff's
interpretation that would all fall under
the business park or2 employment zoning
District any of the testing that will
occur will occur entirely within the
buildings um and therefore uh similar to
what you would expect in a business Ty
Park type environment where there may be
some manufacturing and whatnot occurring
indoors all right so that lines more for
the data center to the north that is my
understanding yes correct Leslie if you
want to just reiterate that that's
fine good evening mayor and Council my
name is Leslie creger I'm the assistant
vice president for planning space in
real estate at the University of
Minnesota and yes the 1,000 foot uh uh
Marc on the map is a deed restriction
that we put in place as a condition of
the sale to of the um land to meta So
within 1,000 ft of meta's borders they
have a there's a deed restriction not
only for heavy industrial but also
residential and schools as well that was
a condition of the
sale interesting to note that all
right all righty any any other questions
comments can you slide the motion down
just a little bit more there I don't
know how that happened there it just
moved I have it too all
righty there's no other questions or
comments would someone like to move uh
the motions
in the affirmative I'll make a motion to
adopt an ordinance rezoning of the
subject parcel from A2 agriculture to B2
employment are we doing one at a time
second yeah that's
fine uh roll please uh we got a motion
by Esther second by Tyson roll please
clle I wiisel hi Tyson hi presy hi esler
I that passes 5 Z and second motion I'll
make a motion to adopt a resolution
approving The North Wind addition
preliminary and final plat subject to
conditions second motion by esler second
by cimple rooll please wison I Tyson i
presy i esler i limle i and that also
passes 5
Z and with those two business items that
completes or two motions that completes
98
welcome to Roso yeah thank you thank you
yeah
welcome all right we'll move on to
announcements from
10 miss
m I have nothing to add this evening oh
my god there was your perfect
opportunity it was all right and with
that any announcements from Council I I
have one um just a reminder to our
residents that leprechaun days is having
our annual will Bingle bash on Saturday
March 1st at the community center
banquet room you can go to leprechaun
days.org and find more information and
pre- purchase Bingo packets okay
anything else all right then the
community
calendar uh February 24th we have a Park
and Recreation Commission meeting 7 to 8
here the chamber Planning Commission
meeting also here in the chamber on
February 25th 6:30 to 7:30 the youth
youth commission meeting February 26
from 3:45 to
4:45 at 360's communities the fire
department recruitment night is February
26 from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at fire
station number one and I have a city
council work session and city council
meeting on March 4th the first one from
5: to 6 and then 7 to 8:00 for the
council meeting and with that there's no
meeting to come before us I'll move to
adjourn is there a second second a
motion and second to adjourn all in
favor signify by saying I I opposed we
are adjourned thank you have a good
night stay warm
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