So I'm thinking correct. We could I mean I'm sure >> one minute >> you can go. >> Yeah. That's like we'll pay for your photo expect. >> So a lot of times I try to get on the nuts >> and it is >> I think they're gonna copy. The Tuesday, April 21st, 2026 meeting of the Eden Perry City Council is now called to order. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. >> It's customary for me to read an open podium invitation to our residents at this time of the meeting. Open podium is an opportunity for Eden Prairie residents to address the city council on issues related to Eden Prairie city government before each council meeting. Council meetings typically occur the first and third Tuesday of each month. These open podiums occur from 6:30 to 6:55 here in the council chamber. If you wish to speak at open podium, please contact the city manager's office at 952-9498412 by noon of the meeting date with your name, your phone number, and subject matter so we can be better prepared for you. Open podium is not recorded or televised. If you have questions about open podium, please do contact the city manager's office. Mr. Gro, we do uh have a proclamation present. Well, we have a proclamation to read tonight. and I'll turn it over to you. >> We do, mayor. Thank you. Before you read the proclamation, uh our Amy, our park and rec director, Amy Markle, has a little bit of a announcement about an event this weekend. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mayor and Council. This Saturday, April 25th, the community is invited out to Starring Lake Park from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. We will be celebrating Arbor Day with a lot of festivities people can partake in. We'll have kids tree climbing, hands-on art activities, a food truck, trivia. Um, we'll be giving away seedlings and compost and bandanas for leash dogs. And then across the street, if people have ordered trees through our annual tree sale, we'll have them for pickup uh at Flying Cloud Fields. >> Thank you, Dr. Marco. Um, and I uh happen to be picking up two of my trees. So, um, on Saturday morning, I'm excited about that. So I will read um a proclamation from the city council. It's for Arbor Day, April 25th, 2026. Whereas Arbor Day provides people in Eden Prairie the opportunity to celebrate the importance of trees and forest to our economy, our health, culture, history, and future of our city. And whereas trees are of great value as they provide clean air and water and shade, energy savings, wildlife habitat and recreational opportunities. And whereas thoughtfully choosing, planting and caring for a diverse mix of trees and caring for trees as described in the city's urban forest management plan makes our community more resilient into the future. And whereas trees play a major role in combating climate change by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, thereby offsetting greenhouse gas emissions. And whereas trees help Eden Prairie meet the climate action plan goal of communitywide carbon neutrality by 2050. And whereas Eden Prairie first celebrated Arbor Day in 1982 and last whereas whereas Eden Prairie has been recognized as a tree city USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation and desires to continue its tree stewardship and tree planting practices. Now therefore, I, Ron Casease, mayor of the city of Eden Prairie, Minnesota, do hereby proclaim April 25th, 2026, as Arbor Day in the city of Eden Prairie and urge all citizens to support efforts to protect our trees and woodlands and to support our city's urban forestry program. And further, I urge all citizens to plant and care for trees to promote the well-being of present and future generations. Ronald Ease Mayor on behalf of council members Kathy Nelson, Mark Fryberg, PG Nion, and Lisa Tumi. All right, Mr. Gro. Whoop. First agenda. Sorry, jumping ahead of myself. Um, any council members have anything to add to the agenda this evening? If not, is there a motion to approve the agenda as listed? >> Move to approve the agenda. >> Is there a second? Second. All those in favor say I. I. Oppos. Minutes. We have two minutes from April 7th, the workshop and also our council meeting. Uh council, any um edits or uh questions about what was in the minutes of either meeting? If not, is there someone that would make a motion to approve both of them? >> I'll move to approve the following city council minutes. the city council workshop held Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 and the city council meeting held Tuesday, April 7th, 2026. >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. >> I. All right. >> Consent calendar A through M. Um, any items that you want to learn more about? You could even have them pulled for a separate vote if you wished. Um, Council Member Fryberg. >> Um, I have a couple of questions uh on L. I'd like to just find out a little more about >> which one >> was that? >> Which letter? >> Letter L. >> L. Got it. Or Yeah. Um, go ahead. >> Oh, do you want do you want to talk about your question or >> if I could just ask the question, >> please. >> Okay. I'm not familiar with what with what the limits are. I want to refresh myself on that. >> If someone could help me out. >> Sure. Um, Council Member Fryberg. So this is something um that we do annually and we have um state of Minnesota state statute has a certain um limit for cities throughout the state where our tort liability sits and so each year we have to pass a resolution um where we do not wave the monetary limits on our tort liability. So, if we were to wave the statutory monetary limits on our tort liability, and I I would have to research and get back to you what the exact monetary limits are, um the city would be exposed if there were particular lawsuits um to what the dollar amounts would be beyond those limits. And I I could I could pretty much guarantee that for the last 15 to 20 years that this is something that we've done on an annual basis. Absolutely. >> With our insurance. >> Yeah. I just was wondering because I did not know what the that number is. So if you ever get around to it, if I appreciate >> in general under the statute, the limit for a single occurrence is 1.5 million. >> Perfect. Thank you very much. >> I I guess it's more curious. I wouldn't have asked the question, but um that I'm going to ask now except that council member Fryberg, I'm glad you brought it up. The bigger question for me is why does the state require this? It seems like it would be preuncterary or we would just continue it each year automatically. Why do they require that each municipality? >> It so it's it's the it's our insurance carrier >> that requires it. Yes. So we're doing this for insurance carrier. >> Interesting. >> Huh. Okay, >> that's good. Any other question? No. All right. Then if not, is there a motion then to approve items A through M on the consent calendar? >> Move to approve item A to M on the consent calendar. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> Any further discussion? All those in favor say I. I. >> I oppose. All right. We do have one public hearing this evening if I remember correctly. Uh Mr. Gro. >> Thank you, mayor and council members. We do have one public hearing. We have an applicant requesting to subdivide a parcel at uh 11010 Prairie Lakes Drive into two lots. Uh initially the lot split is to uh support a refinancing of the two buildings that are on the two lots uh hopefully one lot with the possibility eventually that one of the lots may be sold at a future date um for redevelopment uh which would be a future project. Um the subdivision that would then occur of the lot split would result in some waivers due to the existing site conditions and those are in the packet uh waivers related to parking uh building setback uh parking and lot with um however as you can see with what's in the packet and what went through planning commission there is not a project before you there there are no planned buildings landscaping parking changes everything at the site will continue it is a simply a lot split. Uh planning commission voted 51 to recommend approval of the project at their March 23rd meeting. The applicant is here to go over their proposal with you and the staff and the applicant could answer any questions that you have before or after the public hearing. >> Great. Um proponent, please come forward. Name and address company you work for. And thanks thanks for being here. >> Good evening, Mr. Mayor, council members, staff, and police officers. Um, my name is Bob Cunningham. I'm with Krauss Anderson Company who happens to be building the addition to city hall over to our west. Uh, and Krauss Anderson also owns the parcel that we're discussing this evening. Cross Anderson's address is 501 uh >> You want to pull that mic down? >> Of course. Sorry. Thank you. >> Cross Anderson's address is 5018th Street, uh, Minneapolis, 55404. And um I have just a very brief presentation in keeping with the fact that there's only one item on the agenda tonight. We'll uh keep it going. Oh, my one my one slide seems to be missing. Darn it. Um so uh what you're looking at is the prel proposed preliminary plat. This is a 13 acre parcel that is all one lot, one block that contains two office buildings. The office buildings the one to the and this is plan north. The office building to the north is is a perfect rectangle. And in planning commission, I called the other building a rhombus. It's not. It's a parallelogram. Um so, uh the idea is to divide these this one parcel into two parcels so that as uh city manager mentioned, we could refinance each one of these buildings individually. And uh in all in all probability the parallelogram is going to be a victim of demolition and re and the beneficiary of redevelopment. The building itself is functionally obsolete. It was built as a corporate headquarters uh in the 80s. It's um it's got a de a building depth that doesn't work for any kind of adaptive reuse. So, we're looking to create two lots here that each stand on their own and I'll go through those slides subsequently uh so that we can refinance each building separately and redevelop the building that is the parallelogram. Uh the lot one is the smaller rectangle building. Lot two is the larger par parallelogram. And you can see that uh the buildings both uh meet the parking requirements, the ADA parking requirements uh in individually. They do to both collectively and individually. Um the uh each building is fully served by utilities and the there will be a reciprocal easement agreement put into place in conjunction with the brlat so that utilities can cross each other's site uh building drainage uh and I think we've got an exhibit on this um will stand alone and one thing I think this might be a good time to mention that to the extent that the parallelogram building becomes a development parcel, that development will reappear before the city council for your further consideration no matter what happens there. Um, and at that point, we'll have to bring the building up to code in terms of whether it's parking, whether it's drainage, whether it's setbacks or whatever it building or buildings, whatever it might be. um salt management exhibit. Only a civil engineer could really love the salt management exhibit. And the emergency respon response exhibit just simply shows that each building has uh access directly to to the to the adjacent road and has room for emergency vehicles to turn around. And there is the the proof of of what I just said. and and it shows it show it does show uh the fire truck which is the largest piece of equipment that will access the site. Shoreline management review will bring that certainly back up to code when and if there's additional development on the parallelogram site. And that is uh the concept behind what we're asking for this evening is to take the 13 acres essentially devel divide it into a 6acre parcel, the northerly parcel, 7acre parcel, the southerntherly parcel so that we can again refinance and redevelop the uh the parallelogram at which point we'll be back in front of the city council and happy to answer any questions. So, council, we will have a public hearing and you can um ask questions now if there's something pressing prior to public hearing or or we can have it close it and then continue to ask questions. Anyone have a question they wish to ask now stay close and we'll go ahead and run. >> I'll be available. Thank you. >> Public hearing. So, so this is a public hearing. Is there anyone in the audience wishing to address the council this evening on this Prairie Lakes Corporate Center development concept division of property? I think I said that correct. So, seeing none, council, I'm not sure if you're going to have too many questions. Let's just close the public hearing though, just in the event you do. Um, and then we'll do the rest of the motion later. So, um, would someone make a motion to close the public hearing? >> Move to close the public hearing. >> Second. >> Second. >> Yeah. Discussion. All those in favor say I. >> I. All right. Council. Uh, questions of the proponent of staff. Um, it's fairly straightforward, but um, if some >> council member Nelson, >> I have a question about how long you think it will go before this building will be torn down. Are we looking at one year, two years, 10 years, 20 years? >> Again, thank you for the question, Mr. Mayor, member of the council. Um the the question is how long might that building stay in its present condition? >> And the uh easy answer is I don't know. But the uh more detailed answer is that the building's been largely vacant for quite a while. There's been a couple of tenants in the building that we frankly are trying to move into a vacancy in the other building so that it becomes entirely vacant and there would be no lease obligations that we'd have to maintain. And so the answer to that directly is it will it will not be demolished until we come back through with our next proposal for the redevelopment of the site. We in all probability would not demolish it in anticipation of that. >> So if if it's takes us a year to plan uh and come back for your consideration, it would be demolished in conjunction with whatever the next development is. >> Thank you, >> council. Other questions? If there's not, uh, you could still continue to ask questions even after the motion. So, is there somebody that would read the next, uh, five bullet points then and make the motion? >> I will adopt a resolution for a plan unit development concept amendment on 13.07 acres and approve the first reading of an ordinance for a PUD amendment with waiverss on 13.07 07 acres and adopt a resolution for a preliminary plat of one parcel into two lots and adopt a resolution in support of of park dedication fees and direct staff to prepare a development agreement incorporating staff and commission recommendations and council conditions. >> Is there a second? >> Second. I think um I'll just say to any residents that um I'm not sure if there are any in the audience but who are listening that live on the south side and I believe I've driven that quite a bit. I think I feel like there's like four or five buildings with two units each. Am I right? Maybe seven six got to be even. Six, eight, 10 something that contiguously border this property. And of course, they've bordered it. They've moved in bordering it um and have experienced a mostly vacant building these last few years. So, I would just say to those residents and any other Eden Prairie residents that have a you know vested interest in this um whatever happens is that as some proposal comes forward, we will be in direct contact with these residents. as as the proponent if there's a developer would as well. Um, you know, I don't I don't know right now. I don't know that anybody knows what uh possibilities could go into that area. There have been just down the road on the south side there was a commercial or was it office zoned that um converted into town homes. Um I would say whatever goes in there will be a nice match for the neighborhood if it's another nice building. U we'll be very careful on height restrictions. I one neighbor called and wondered if um or talked to me and wondered if um you know if a five-story apartment building could go in there and I'm like well no I mean we we would have an option. Well I think zoning wise it would be difficult but we as a council get the opportunity to weigh in on that. We would definitely pro protect as much as we can the contiguous neighbor impact. So just to let people know that um we're just so early in this process. Um, no one really knows what will go in there. This is simply giving the the owner now the opportunity to divide the properties and develop the southern develop well maybe both of them someday but develop them separately. Uh, but for sure the southern property. Uh, Mr. GO or um, Miss KMA, anyone do you want to add anything to that or any information on that? >> Mayor, members of the council, I would agree with all of the commentary that you just provided in all of our conversations with Mr. Cunningham dating back to his initial inquiry. It has been all about positioning this property for marketability for future redevelopment. >> Perfect. Anything else, council? >> If not, we've had a motion and a second. So, all those in favor say I. >> I. I. Opposed. All right. Good. Congratulations on that beginning piece of the this um process. >> All right. payment of claims. Um, any expenses? Um, interesting. You know, I've I'd look through them every now and then, and I guess I had forgotten. This may show my ignorance of looking through them weekly, but I didn't realize they were listed in sequential order of most expensive. I I thought it was for some reason I remember it more being by date in the past, but I guess not. So, um, yeah, that was interesting. They kept getting went all the way down to like five went all the way from hundreds of thousands of dollars all the way down to like $5. So, uh, interesting. Um, so council any any of those um expenses you wish to learn more about question? If not, is there a motion to approve the payment of claims? >> Move to approve the payment of claim as submitted. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> And um, any discussion? Roll call. >> Council member Fryberg. >> I. >> Council member Nion. I >> council member Nelson >> I >> council member Tumi >> Hi. >> Mayor Casease >> I >> I think that's all to come before the council this evening. You're looking at me. >> No. No. Mayor >> just want to make sure I didn't forget something. >> When we were preparing the agenda, um we knew what the weather was going to be like tonight. >> Well, I just feel bad for Mark Weber. He finally gets the job again to come and and write something. And um I don't know that he got enough. I hope you got enough to I don't know write something. Um, all right. With that, is there a motion to adjourn the meeting? >> Move to adjourn the city council meeting tonight. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All those in favor say I. >> I oppose. This meeting is adjourned.