Based on the context provided and the dialogue within the transcript, here is the formatted version with speaker names identified. **Note on Speakers:** * **Chair Zimmer** is identified as the presiding officer. * **Miss Jensen** is the planning staff member presenting the first item. * **Tina Goodroad** (Community Development Director) is the staff member presenting the second item. * **Zach Johnson** (City Engineer) provides technical testimony. * **Miss Erickson** is the clerk/recording secretary. * **Commissioners** are identified by the roll call (Duckworth, Tinsley, Palooza, Ike, Sweeny, and Swanson/Swenson). *** [0:59] **Chair Zimmer:** Good evening. May I call the November 20th, 2025 planning commission meeting to order and ask you to rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag. [1:27] **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Thank you. Tinsley? **Commissioner Tinsley:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Duckworth? **Commissioner Duckworth:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Palooza? **Commissioner Palooza:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Zimmer? **Chair Zimmer:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Ike? **Commissioner Ike:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Sweeny? **Commissioner Sweeny:** Here. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Swanson? **Commissioner Swanson:** Here. [1:27] **Chair Zimmer:** Thank you so much. Next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes for the November 6 Planning Commission meeting. Does anyone have any changes? And if not, we will let them stand as is. Um announcements. Do we have any announcements today? Miss Jensen. [1:50] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Uh thank you, Chair Zimmer. Yes, you do have a revised uh landscape plan uh in front of you for the Kyla Crossing second edition item. I will cover that in my presentation. Um and then our next planning commission meeting, just to note, is scheduled for December 4th. [2:14] **Chair Zimmer:** Great. Thank you so much. Uh the first item, excuse me, the next item is a public hearing for Kylo Crossing second edition to consider the application of Topaz LLC for the following located at the northwest corner of Ipava Avenue and Kenwood Trail. There are three items, preliminary plat zoning map, and comprehensive plan. We will have um Mr. Osberg present. Uh then we'll hear from Miss Jensen. Uh open the public hearing for comment. And if you would like to uh make comments, please sign up at the back of the room. Thank you. I bring Mr. Osberg. [2:55] **Rick Osberg (Applicant Engineer):** Commissioners, uh, pleased to bring you, uh, this plat before you this evening. [2:55] **Chair Zimmer:** You do need to identify yourself for the record please. [2:55] **Rick Osberg:** My name is Rick Osberg. I'm with Hill Incorporated. I'm the engineer for the project. I'm here this evening with uh, the developer and owner of 11010 Homes and Ryan Realty, Bill Ryan. We're pleased to have this uh, addition, which is a continuation of the Kyla edition we did in 2014. and uh I think we have a solid project here and uh I'll stand for questions after the presentation. [3:15] **Chair Zimmer:** Thank you so much. [3:33] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Good evening. Thanks. Uh before this evening, as we said, is a public hearing for the preliminary plat rezoning and comp plan amendment for Kylie Crossing, second edition. It is located west of Ipava Avenue and north of Kenwood Trail, uh which is County Road 50 and it is across the street from Ames Arena. Uh on the left is the uh zoning maps. The top being the existing zoning. The parcel is currently zoned RM2 which is a medium density residential district. You typically see back-to-back town homes in that district. On the bottom left is the proposed zoning which is the RST2 district which allows single family uh detached town homes and twin homes. Um on the right is the uh comprehensive land use. Again on the top is the existing the medium high-density residential which corresponds again with that zoning district. And then the proposed comp plan district which is the low-density residential which uh corresponds to um that zoning district. [4:40] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Uh here is the preliminary plat. It is 18 single family lots and the extension of Iris Way from its current um temporary ending. If I can get the mouse to work in this location, extending it all the way over to Ipava Avenue. Um the connection to Ipava does uh align with one of the access points to Ames Arena. So it does create a an intersection there. And then there will be a sidewalk on the north side of of Iris Way as well. just the grading plan for your uh to show everyone. There are a couple storm water ponds on the site. One on the north and another on the south that will connect into the existing pond or uh drainage area for uh Kenwood Trail. [5:27] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Uh on the left we have the landscape plan. Um there is landscape buffer plantings that are required along Ipava for these two lots here. So that is shown. Um despite how it looks, technically none of these lots on the south side of of Iris Way directly above County Road 50. So they are not required to have the buffer yard plantings. However, uh the developer is planting um trees at the rear of those lots um to help with that buffering because they are close to that area. Um and that was one of the changes. So, the revised plan that you have shows the um the trees at the rear of lots one, two, and three moved up to the rear of the lots instead of uh within the outlot for ponding along 50 as they were previously. Uh the front yard trees, which are illustrative uh more in nature, have been moved out of the easement areas um as well. So, stipulation number eight of my staff report has been satisfied. [6:29] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Uh and then the tree inventory plan was completed. This is one of our our first projects under our new tree preservation ordinance. Uh it was completed. They are only removing about 18% of the trees on site or the inches I should say. So there was no tree replacement required um under the new tree preservation ordinance. Uh staff does recommend approval of the Kylo Crossing second edition preliminary plat rezoning and comp plan amendment subject to the seven stipulations including in the plan report as amended and approval of the findings of fact dated November 20th, 2025. And I will stand for any questions you may have much. [7:11] **Chair Zimmer:** This is a public hearing. Uh do we have anybody come forward and speak regarding this proposal? If you could identify yourself, give us your address that. Thank you. [7:27] **John Hawinson (Public):** Good evening, commissioners. John Hawinson, 9611 198th Street West, Kyla Crossing, phase 1. Um, just wanted to ask a couple of general questions. Um, when we moved here in 2020, I had reached out to the planning commission just asking what was possibly in the works and obviously stepping this down from medium density to uh low density for single family homes is perfectly in line with what the neighborhood already is. So, I think that makes a lot of sense and I'm glad that that we're planning and up for decision tonight. Um, couple questions that I had with the intersection of what will be the through Iris Way right across the street from Ames Arena. Um, you know, a lot of kids already in Kylo Crossing, obviously 18 more single family homes. You're going to add more. That intersection is there's no stop signs. It's just a it'll theoretically be a free-for-all. And when you have all the bus and commuter traffic turning left, going north on Ipava, you're immediately going to be turning into the arena or turning in onto Iris. Just wondering if there's been any discussion about how that's going to affect um pedestrian flow and uh traffic safety. And my last question is regarding the four outlots that are I guess it would be south of lots through nine. Um, those I think are still I don't know. They're not part of Mr. Warig's property. I don't know if they are owned by the city of Lakeville or Dakota County. Just wondering if there's any idea of what is going to happen with those outlets as well. [9:13] **Chair Zimmer:** Thank you so much for your questions, staff. We'll we'll get answers to that. Thank you so much. Do you have anyone else who'd like to speak? Doesn't look like there's anyone on the phone. So, um, [9:13] **Commissioner:** Madam Chair, uh, seeing no one else come forward, I move to close the public hearing. [9:32] **Commissioner:** Second. [9:32] **Chair Zimmer:** We have a motion and a second. All those in favor of closing the public hearing, please say I. **Commissioners:** I. **Chair Zimmer:** All those opposed. Motion prevails. The public hearing is now closed. Uh, I would ask um they seem to be city related questions. If Miss Jensen could answer those and the one on the engineer section perhaps Mr. Osberg's. [9:55] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Right I can certainly address uh the areas here that are south um that is where that um ponding area is uh those were acquired they're either in county ownership or city ownership and there is a ponding area there for Kenwood Trail so they are not um developable for the future they are there is ponding so um And as for the um intersection improvements, uh either Mr. Osberg or um our assistant city engineer, Mr. Nelson, could perhaps address from our end of things. [10:35] **Rick Osberg (Applicant Engineer):** Thank you. Um yes, during the design um examined the actually two alternatives. there's a another opening further north kind of along uh the east edge of a north pond and we had layouts that kind of corresponded to that at some point and I had some discussions with city engineer um Zach Johnson and it it's not an ideal location either neither one is ideal but it certainly um he had opinions that um felt that the northernly one would not really work out. Um that given the without the access or without the connection, it would have been a very long dead end cul-de-sac and that really wasn't something that was followed through with either which gave us really that one choice to go to that uh particular curb opening that's already poured and existing. Um I so it we were just led to that based on looking at other um potential connections. Um, as far as how traffic uh will be impacted with that, um, you know, it is we we did feel that perhaps if you were going to go north and immediately turn into Iris, um, the local residents might learn that that might not be the ideal way to go in. Have gone into Kyla first edition and then maybe going out is more opportunity. Um well it depending on the time of day in traffic but I think uh in that respect that's something that would be uh just avoided by going to the next intersection you can still drive into your subdivision but that's about as much as I can offer on it at this point. [12:27] **Chair Zimmer:** I'll just ask you this question then we'll call up ask questions of our city engineer. Um the question regarding intersection is it a controlled intersection and if so what kind of control? [12:58] **Rick Osberg:** Not to my knowledge, there's no no stop signs or no lights at at that entrance right now. [12:58] **Chair Zimmer:** Okay. Thank you. Um perhaps we could have city engineering answer that portion of the question. [13:00] **Zach Johnson (City Engineer):** Yeah, I I pulled up the review for the opposing side of Ipava Avenue. It looks like there's an existing side street stop control there. We would mimic that same side street stop control with this new development on the on the west side of Ipava. [13:27] **Chair Zimmer:** Okay. So, it sounds like there'll be a stop sign at that intersection. [13:27] **Zach Johnson:** Yes, correct. [13:27] **Chair Zimmer:** Not a controlled like only right or only left in and out kind of a thing. [13:27] **Zach Johnson:** No, no intersection configuration changes, but we would have side street control. [13:43] **Chair Zimmer:** Okay. Um, planning commissioners, do you have any questions? [13:43] **Commissioner Swenson:** Madam Chair, so I did notice when I drove through the neighborhood here today, and I apologize I didn't ask this question of city staff earlier, but um all the streets in Kylo Crossing right now have no parking signs on one side of the street. Um I'm assuming that might have had something to do with parking issues and things at Ames Arena prior to the reconfiguration of the parking lot. Um, are we going to continue the no parking signs through this extension? So, it's signed the same or are there other things we're thinking about? [14:24] **Chair Zimmer:** And is that a question for Miss Jensen? [14:24] **Miss Jensen (Staff):** Certainly something we can speak with uh engineering staff about. It is something that would be um if approve if uh recommended done through a resolution approval by city council probably with the final plat. So, um there would be that opportunity to do that at that time. But yes, that's why there was no parking added then. Uh it's why 198th Street actually doesn't connect to 50. Some of you might recall because there was the concern of people using that as a cut through to get to 50. [14:53] **Commissioner Swenson:** Madam Chair, I I was on the planning commission at that time, so I do remember some of those discussions and also being a user of the Ames Arena parking lot very frequently. um it it significantly has changed since the expansion of that parking lot. At least I don't think there is nearly the overflow pressure that there once was. So just as this moves forward, maybe something for the city council to consider and like you said, it's a different action than this body takes. So thank you. [15:18] **Chair Zimmer:** Thank you so much. Any other commissioners? [15:53] **Commissioner Swenson:** No other questions and um be ready for a motion. Madam Chair, I move to recommend to city council approval of the Kyler Crossing second edition preliminary plat of 18 single family lots, the zoning map amendment to rezone property from RM2 medium density residential district to RST2 single and two family residential district and the comprehensive plan amendment to reguide property from medium high-density residential district to low-density residential district and approval of the findings of fact dated November 20th, 2025 subject to the eight stipulations listed in the planning memo dated November 10th, 2025. [16:18] **Commissioner:** Second. [16:18] **Chair Zimmer:** We have a motion and a second. Miss Erickson, will you please take the role? **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Duckworth? **Commissioner Duckworth:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Kuza? **Commissioner Kuza:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Zimmer? **Chair Zimmer:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Sweeny? **Commissioner Sweeny:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Swenson? **Commissioner Swenson:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Tinsley? **Commissioner Tinsley:** I. [16:38] **Chair Zimmer:** The eyes have it. Uh thank you so much for your comments and hopefully uh that is addressed and forward to the project. Mr. Osberg, thank you for being here. The next item is Dakota Waste Solutions. Consider the application of Dakota Waste Solutions L. The following located in the southeast corner of 215th Street in Kaparia Avenue. There are three items. Preliminary plat a zoning map planned unit development and uh Mr. Brandt is here to present on behalf of uh Dakota Waste Solutions. You saw already the rules and regs. If you could identify yourself, please that would be great. [17:17] **Mike Brandt (Applicant Engineer):** Mike Brandt with Kimley Horn representing Dakota Waste Solutions. Happy to be here tonight, Madam Chair, to present to you Dakota Waste Solutions PUD Insight Plan Review. going to give you a quick overview of the project. Dakota Waste Solutions is proposing down the southwest corner of 215th Caparia to source separated organic recycling facility and compost for composting material. Uh it's a family-owned business. They've been in business in along 215 for years in the city of Lakeville and do promote a lot of community activities from local businesses throughout the city. Vision of the future composting for the county and beyond is set by the PCA. They have a statewide goal of trying to recycle 70% of organic waste by 2030. Kind of an aggressive goal, but this is one way we can all get to that strategy by achieving that goal. [18:22] **Mike Brandt:** Project will be phased. We've been working with city staff for well over probably a year and a half on this project. Um just to kind of give you a quick time frame and I if we can get approval to move forward to city council hopefully council will approve the preliminary plat January we'll be back architectural designs and final plat layout to finalize the development agreement and in February 2026 this does require an MPCA permit that's already been applied for that will be approved. Timeline is around February 1st. The PCA is thinking that they'll be ready to issue that permit. With that, we'll continue with the final stage PUD and final plat and also get the licensing from Dakota County. Once that license has been approved, hopefully in the spring we'll start construction uh upgrading and everything. and then July get phase one buildings up and hopefully we can start with the equipment installation and operation the fall of this year for phase one. [19:39] **Mike Brandt:** So how do we assist with sustaining the reduced waste goals? Uh this project will be an indoor facility. Everything will be sorted and composted indoors until it's outdoors. going to process approximately 6,000 tons. Uh they also will accept yard waste, wood products, packaged food waste, canned food material coming from expired grocery products from Walmart, local places like that. They'll take the items, compost them. They'll remove the packaging, sort it, blend it, mix it, and then turn it into compost in about a two to three week process. All this is monitored for temperature, moisture, content, and everything to adhere to the MPCA rules of compost plus the composting as well. There's guidance for that before You want to make sure everything's gone to the temperature so you don't have pathogens in there so it can be used for normal consumption by the humans. And according to the you know about 62% of all food ends up in the waste. 40% of that food product could be reused could have been eaten. 6% is unopened or unexpired product. Uh organics makes up about a one-third of the waist stream that goes to the landfill. So if we can increase the organic collection and infrastructure process to handle that, we're decreasing the need of our landfills and extending that life of the landfill. So that's the whole purpose of this project. [21:43] **Mike Brandt:** kind of give you a run through of the site plan, a high overview, and show you some perspectives of what we have, what this facility could look like. Here's the general location. It's a south-east corner of Caparia and 215. Uh 37 acres in sight. It will have four buildings on it. Uh it'll have two buildings that will move. The wood processing facility that's north of 215 will also be moving down here. They grind up scrap wood from local manufacturers pallets and different things to recycle that for horse bedding, cattle bedding, furnace burning, and then there's a certain percentage that does need to be compost. We'll also have an installed compost building. It's kind of a hybrid compost system that does everything indoors. Standard compost systems like this have been traditionally done outside in static piles that are like 12 to 14 feet tall throughout the state with MPCA talking with them. That's where most of the problems have happened is they get odor complaints from the open piles because when stuff breaks down you turn it which they have to you will have odors. So by keeping it indoors that process and then we'll also just have a processing building. That's where the raw food products will be brought in that are in their container and that will be depackaged inside that building as well. [23:18] **Mike Brandt:** And then we'll have storage areas outside of finished compost areas. That's where once the project meets temperature, it has to cool down. For lack of a better term, it has to cool down. So, we'll have a staging area for that. And then we'll have the finished compost area where they'll be loading trucks and hauling away. We also have to have an area that'll be covered for yard waste storage where they'll collect grass from the local haulers. The local residents won't be allowed to bring grass there or come and pick anything up. But the haulers of the area that pick up the grass from the recycle areas will deliver there along with lead as that's part of the compost recipe. Uh along with the wood chip storage area will also be undercover to keep the chips dry. And then we have the hearing area that's just the cooling off area. We'll have a weigh station for trucks. There will be some trailer parking for the operating trucks of the day. [clears throat] Step in there and then storm water management features along the property. [24:30] **Mike Brandt:** There are wetlands on the property as this is north of the south branch area. Although we are without any of the setbacks of that. We're outside the flood plane and there are no wetland impacts proposed for this project. They'll all be avoided and the buffers will be preserved for those wetlands. The flood plane we have our friend the gas lines gas mains crossing the property that as you'll see when we get to the site plan uh they kind of cut diagonally through the property and there you'll see a hole in the berm. Gas company will not allow us to screen or fence across the property. So we have to creatively find way green the property with that. We have been in contact with the gas company. They're in process of uh getting the permits processed for that for the crossing the driveway crossing that we have internal to the site and also reducing the easement far as what composting and what can be done. Uh approximately 15,000 pounds of food or 15,500 tons of food will be processed here annually. About 1,300 tons a month to 65 tons a day can be processed in this facility. [25:58] **Mike Brandt:** Uh, initially we looked to be processing about 3,000 yards of 3,000 tons of yard waste and we're looking to process about 4,800 tons of wood at the facility as well. It's estimating that because most of what comes in here, the wood, the metal, anything will all be sorted and recycled on the cardboard will all be recycled. The depackaging machine is kind of it's a very cool process that you can put a plastic container in the machine or a metal can. It'll open the metal can, separate the food, separate the water, separate the plastic or the metal. And all that will all be recycled at the facility as well and separate it out and then processed at the required facilities. Um yeah, we're over 85% of what comes in is going to be recycled at this facility. With the food waste, you know, the major things with the food waste is are we having any meat? No. This will all be plant material. It'll all be your vegetables, your fruits. That's what's mainly going to be processed here. There will be some cooked meat that's limited then of the product just because they take the old salads that are expired from the gas station or the grocery stores. So there's a little bit of meat in those products that will carry over into here. Uh they do take some animal manure because they take bedding straw and recycle that to compost as well. But the animal manure is limited by percent of the material as well. So it's a very just what they they're not taking bulk manure, but they're taking the scraps for lack of a better term. [27:58] **Mike Brandt:** Wood waste of course has multiple uses, animal bedding and furnace fuel and then compost as well. This kind of gives you a list of what we're seeing for products that can come in here, raw meat, raw fish. We don't want products in bulk. No tanker loads of anything taking breweries yeast that's expired from the breweries in the area. They won't be taking any of that. No liquid manure products, stuff like that will be happening. It will take a small amount of uh new gypsum wallboard brand new that are scraps because that gypsum does help in the cross composting processes. This goes on with the wood, you know, taking the trees, the scrap lumber from the window mills. Nothing has been painted or stained. They're not old from homes that have been destroyed or anything like that. It's all new lumber, trees, and branches, stuff like that comes in. It's nothing that has been processed other than the pallets and they strip them down, get all the nails out of the pallets and everything like that and recycle all that. [29:42] **Mike Brandt:** Uh what are some of the concerns that we've heard with composting like this? Number one is what's the odor going to be like? by having it inside the buildings, keeping these buildings at a negative pressure. Both the processing and the compost building will have carbon filters and biofilters on the outside that all the air will be sucked in and through those filters to help maintain that odor. The noises uh the machinery processing will be inside to minimize the noise as much as possible. Yes, there will be outside backup beepers on equipment and stuff like that. That does happen, but that will happen only during normal business hours. And wind dispersion know uh that mainly what the wind dispersion deals with is where where are you for blowing from all that? Well, with everything being brought inside, that's going to definitely help with that type of material. There is fencing around the entire area that will also help as a wind-breaking wind-blowing debris as well. But the composting material once it's been cured and processed, it's top soil. So, it it can be outside, it can be stored that way. So, there isn't any real threat of that blowing. [31:17] **Mike Brandt:** requirements. The facility will be inspected daily and they will be operating it daily and they will have a requirement control policy that they will adhere to. Um, also due to the high temperatures in the compost material, there's not a lot of varmints that like climb in there. Most of these wind rows are well over 120 degrees F. Varmints don't like to be in that facility when that's happening. Increase in traffic. The traffic flow is going to be along 215th for the most part. That's where the main entrance will be. uh big huge increase in the truck traffic than what's already out there today is really how we're looking at the truck traffic. Uh excess lighting, we will be adhering to the phototric requirements of the city. air emissions. We don't really anticipate a lot of air emissions, especially with everything being enclosed and being filtered through the carbon filters. Uh, and then the letter, that's the nuisance concern that having everything inside should help us a lot with keeping that up. And the last question of is the facility open to the public? Not at this time. We're not looking to open it to the public to have local people delivered to us or come and pick up. It's just not that type of facility. We can run through the reasons why we're doing all to speed up the process, but it helps us control it a lot better. You can control the moisture, you control the temperature by keeping it indoors, but mainly it's also the that way the risk of odor migrating is much more minimized. [33:33] **Mike Brandt:** Uh and it also helps in the process of just speeding that process up. Instead of taking a month to two months to decompose, it'll be done in a matter of weeks. Technology that is really supported by the MPCA right now. They've been implementing it over in Hutchinson at their facility. They haven't gone to the fully covered type of facility over there yet, but they've gone a hybrid that it's open. Their odor control complaints have gone way down, but they still would like to keep moving forward with getting it covered over there. And also with Minnesota Winters keeping everything indoors, it's a little easier to work. [34:16] **Mike Brandt:** Here's our overall site plan site. Uh the numbers are a little hard to see, but the first building that's labeled number one, that's where the raw material will be entering in and held in there for about a week to get things up to temperature and get the recipe right. You don't just take all food and all do it. It's a it's a recipe that goes through and they get that mixed in and get it up to temperature. Then it'll be transferred to building number two. And that's where the wind rolls and they'll structure with all these other structures I should have mentioned earlier. They're all going to be like hoop sheds. So they look like the salt shed at at the DOT facility. The reasoning for that is one, it gets a clearance that we can get in there to operate the equipment, but it's also the best for moisture resistance to keep that moisture control and help us with that throughout the process. It also helps us to get natural daylight in green so we don't have to have so much light. uh the third building on there that's be stored undercover and the wood chips for the composting facility. That way they can easily have the process building to mix the make the recipe and wood chips are also used if the composting gets out of control. They'll dump more wood chips on that to kind of control things. Then it'll be from the compost building. Once it's cured, it'll move over to the curing pad for a few days to weeks and then it'll be loaded out on the finishing compost area up in the north corner of the site. That's where all the wood processing will take place. One will be a storage building and the other will be actually the chipping building where it'll be processed and chipped. Uh, I guess this slide is just really going through I just went through is how it'll just kind of go through the process. And this is kind of a example of what the building will look like for those hoop sheds. This will really be your wood processing storage, your yard storage, and the process building itself. The loading docks on the far west end will be more of a concrete style traditional industrial building. [36:50] **Mike Brandt:** In vessel greenhouse, we went over that. That's where the thing actually goes. There will be air introduced to the compost and it'll all be under negative pressure and filtered as well. There is some leachate collected that will be collected in its own tank. It'll be distributed to the Met Council sewer or a lot of that water will all be reused in the composting process as it comes off to keep it moist. This is typically this is just a glorified cartoon of how the process works where you have these rows of compost. You'll be turning the compost and then you have air fed underneath to help blow through the compost to introduce the air in there. This is kind of an example of what the greenhouse building will look like, what the type of structure. It's not your temporary plastic line greenhouse that you'll see pop up in the spring of the year. [37:53] **Mike Brandt:** And then the compost area hearing areas all areas on the site will be paved. There'll be hard surface to prevent infiltration of anything. And the storm water will be collected from there. And the compost storage look like a pile of compost or dirt. Kind of give you a perspective of what things could look like from 215. This is looking at the west entrance where the guard shack will be with the weigh station looking in buildings that you see directly back there. That would be the yard building in that general area. [38:46] **Mike Brandt:** This is kind of dead center in the site just looking through to the trailer storage and what you would see kind of in the middle site and this is where the gas easement would be where we can't do a lot of screening or berming but we are going to be greening the property inside the property line to help that screening as well just to kind of cut that off. And this is at Capria and 215th looking into the site looking at where the processing buildings would be which are the closest to 215. You can just barely make out the top of the building back there. And these trees represent probably about a 10 year growth. Next steps um submitted to the PCA. Dakota County is kind of waiting for the PCA and the city to finalize issuing the license. Happy to be here and hopefully from the city of Lakeville I'll answer any questions. [40:07] **Chair Zimmer:** We'll have staff come up second and then back for questions. But that has to be uh in my experience the most detailed presentation. I don't think Tina's gonna have a lot to add. Miss Goodroad. [laughter] [40:07] **Tina Goodroad (Community Development Director):** Um, chair, members of the commission, I requested Mike to do that because I wasn't about to try and explain the intricacies of the composting and how this site is going to work. But I am excited to be here tonight. Um if you recall it was probably oh last well a year ago last July when we came to work session and want to welcome Bob Dunham, Andy Dunham and Max um they have worked super hard um with Mike to get to this point um to do this project. And while maybe we might think about these kinds of uses as maybe ones that we wouldn't choose um in our industrial area, they are really important functions that they are providing to our community and well beyond our community. Um and so we have worked really hard to get them here and I want to thank the Dunham um group as well as Mike Brandt in um getting this project to fruition. [41:39] **Tina Goodroad:** um in terms of the application for the preliminary plat going through the PUD process um but also that MPCA permit we didn't bring copies we didn't put that in your packet it's this thick so um I can just honestly tell you um this is a lot of effort to get them um on this course. I'm just going to touch on a few basics um really regarding the PUD so we opted to um go with the plan unit development which is a rezone zoning. Um, and so you can see the property is zoned I1 with the PUD serves as really an overlay over the I1, but the PUD gives us that flexibility to allow these what I call unique recycling uses. Um, and allows us to really dictate how we as a city want to see this site function, which also is supported by that MPCA license. So, um, it's really the MPCA and the county license first in which they have to have in which to operate and then it's our plan unit development ordinance and development contract that follows under. [42:24] **Tina Goodroad:** So, they all kind of work together in tandem. Um, but we really wanted to allow um the uses um flexibility um for the use and also the structures um that Mike has talked about um in his review. So, that is why we're going the PUD route. Um, we've already walked through the site plan. Um, I think it's really important again to point out that the creek, all of the existing wetlands, all of the existing trees that are in the south part of the property are being untouched. So, a lot of care was taken to just say, "Nope, we're not touching that." Um, and it's 11 acres of the property that they're just simply not able to use. [43:04] **Tina Goodroad:** Um, again, this is just a little closer view of the site plan. Um, a closer view of the landscaping. Um, we requested those perspective drawings to really help you understand what the view would be from 215th Street and Kaparia Avenue. Yes, we're using some unorthodox types of buildings. We do have hoop sheds in our community. Um, the Dunhams already use them um for some of their businesses. And so, while they might not be our most preferred structure for industrial buildings, they do serve a purpose. And so through the PUD process, um, we can allow those structures and they're actually allowed in the underlying zoning if certain things are proven. Um, and that's dictated in the or stipulated in the staff report. But I believe in this case there is justification for that. um with just the function of the wood processing, the availability and the ease of getting the deliveries, the product in covered um so they're protected um from weather and then also be able to do the processing activities. [44:04] **Tina Goodroad:** So um whereas right now this use is existing on the site on the north and we don't have the benefit of the hoop shed structures there. So everything is just out in the open and very visible. Here we really pushed um it's going to be costly to do the berm and landscaping. Um but Mike's team did a good job showing that after we get um not only the berm installed but also some tree growth, we're really not going to see much of what's happening on this site. Um and I think that's ideal for their business too. Um for just the privacy and just allowing them to operate without a lot of curious people um visiting the site. The PUD ordinance is done in two parts. So tonight we're really focused on the rezoning of the property to plan unit development district and then the PUD development stage is tied to the preliminary plat. So this is where we have really the meat um of the project review and we have the PUD ordinance prepared that council will consider and then the final PUD plan will come with the final plat and that's when we'll also enter into the development contract. [45:36] **Tina Goodroad:** We do have some remaining items. We want to see the final design of the hoop shed. We want to see the final design of the greenhouse structure. We will be bringing those pieces back to the planning commission um for your final PUD review while the final plat will just go to council. Again, the PUD ordinance itself contains a lot of things that will probably be supplemented in the MPCA permit. Some of the things will also be added to our development contract, but it really gets to the uses that are allowed, performance standards, the hours of operation, the structure types, the odor control, um the trailer parking and other outdoor storage area, and then referencing the different permits that will be required, the reporting that will be required so that this site is able to um exist and operate um in a way that we feel comfortable and satisfied. that'll operate um the way that it should. Um so that is in a nutshell what um the process and our next steps. Um as Mike mentioned um it's anticipated in January to bring forward the the final plat and the other um architectural drawings and we will certainly share those with the commission. Um so I don't really there are several stipulations um in um the staff report that relate to the preliminary plat as well as the PUD and then there is a copy of the PUD district ordinance um that we've created for this um property that the city council will um consider and we're looking to bring this to the city council on December 15th. And um likewise I would stand for any questions. [46:54] **Chair Zimmer:** Thank you so much. This is a public hearing. There anyone that wishes to speak? Not seeing anyone and there's no one on the phone. I entertain a motion. [46:54] **Commissioner:** Madam Chair, seeing no one come forward, I move to close the public hearing. [47:11] **Commissioner:** Second. [47:11] **Chair Zimmer:** We have a motion and a second. All those in favor of closing the public hearing, please say I. **Commissioners:** I. **Chair Zimmer:** Opposed? The motion prevails and the public hearing is now closed. Commissioners, do we have any questions? I remember the work session on this and um thinking about that Arthur the Aardvark show and when the kids went for the tour of the recycling facility. It sounds like a fun place. So maybe we need a planning commission field trip. [47:49] **Commissioner:** I was thinking the same thing. [47:49] **Tina Goodroad:** We can arrange that. [47:49] **Chair Zimmer:** Questions please. [48:14] **Commissioner Swanson:** I'll just make a comment that I think that the presentation is given by uh Mike was very in-depth and and all the questions that I was going to ask he answered before I could ask them. All right. So, I'm I'm kind of chuckling a little bit here from early on. I'm a civil engineer and my project as a freshman in college was um coming up with a composting facility for my college uh to utilize food scraps and product from our cafeterias that was wasted because there was a tremendous amount of waste out of those facilities. And I I put this in that category. This is kind of an unseen economy that many of us never think of. Um, but it's very valuable to what we do and it aligns with what the MPCA's goals are for trying to minimize waste and dumping things in the landfill and just trying to bury everything. It's not a solution for us long term. Um, if you look at the landfill in Burnsville and see that we're reaching for the sky on that or hauling it all the way down to Iowa to dispose of that type of thing. So trying to minimize that type of waste I think is an important thing that's being done by this type of business. And so having a place here I think is a good thing. Um I do have a couple of comments or questions. Um one in your presentation Mr. Brandt um noticed a comment in there about no paving over the gas pipeline until they replace the pipeline. Could you maybe elaborate a little about what that might mean? [49:26] **Mike Brandt (Applicant Engineer):** And this came up on Friday with the gas company and they go well that pipeline was put in in about 1954 and with the development that is proposed to the east of this property with the proximity of those buildings they need to replace that gas pipeline within the next year or two. They were telling me in two years and I told them, well, do you realize 215th is going to be replaced? So hopefully they speed up a little bit. [49:58] **Commissioner Swanson:** Gotcha. [49:58] **Mike Brandt:** But that's the whole purpose of that is they are asking that we do not pave over that gas easement until that pipeline gets replaced and then we would pave that in. If it's going to be within the next year or so, why would you pave it and then tear it right back up? Um to that point then that may mean then we have kind of an intermission perhaps with a gravel surface or something like that. [50:19] **Commissioner Swanson:** And is that something we need to modify or consider in the PUD to allow that timing and sequencing? [50:19] **Tina Goodroad:** Yes. Um I think that's a good idea. We can add some language to that effect before this goes to council. [50:41] **Commissioner Swanson:** Y I I think that would be good just to make sure that they're covered under that because it's a condition that's outside of their control in terms of developing the site. Um, another comment with that, you mentioned the fencing that perhaps um can't go over the pipeline easements. I'm kind of assuming or envisioning maybe there's going to be another set of gates or something at that access between the the north access and the west. [51:14] **Mike Brandt:** MPCA requires the entire facility to be fenced and gated for access. We still have a gate up at 215 going to the guard shack or the weigh station in there, but internally just to have that other gate to make the PCA content. and I proposed the gate to the gas company, but that didn't go too well. [51:52] **Commissioner Swanson:** Understood. Let me continue. [51:52] **Chair Zimmer:** Please do. [51:52] **Commissioner Swanson:** Um, another question for you. Um, obviously the finished product of a lot of this is going to be compostable material. Um, are we planning on hauling that material out in bulk? Are we going to bag it on the site? What what exactly is the operation going to look like on that end? [52:15] **Mike Brandt:** Primarily bulk. Most of the people that will be taking the product are wholesalers. They'll be purchasing it handbagging it, selling it in local stores. [52:15] **Commissioner Swanson:** Last question I have. Obviously, we're considering using the hoop type structures on that as has been alluded to. They've already got two of those out there. Use them. I work in an industry that we use them for salt storage and handling bulk materials and doing that type of work. Um, are there any restrictions in the PUD on the color related to those or are we language we might want to add or need to have related to that? [52:45] **Tina Goodroad:** Thank you, Commissioner Swanson. We did not consider color if that if you have that as a suggestion. I don't know if that would be an issue. Usually beige or something. [52:45] **Commissioner Swanson:** I was going to say white or neutral colors. [53:00] **Tina Goodroad:** Okay, we can have that. [53:00] **Commissioner:** Lakeville North and South colors. [laughter] [53:00] **Chair Zimmer:** I was gonna say no blaze orange, [laughter] right? You can add that. [53:17] **Commissioner Swanson:** Perfect. That's all the comments I have. [53:17] **Chair Zimmer:** Any other questions? Was really a detailed fantastic presentation and took all my questions. Um, if there are no other questions, then I think we're ready. I think Commissioner Swanson's chomping at the bit. [laughter] [53:38] **Commissioner Swanson:** I have to read this whole mouthful again. Yes. [laughter] Since you asked all it's all good. I will make a motion if we're ready for that. I move to recommend a city council approval of the zoning map amendment of the property from I1 light industrial district to PUD planned unit development district based on the findings of fact dated November 20th, 2025. Subject to the recording of the final plat and final PUD development plan for Dakota Waste Solutions and approval of the preliminary plat for a two lot subdivision and approval of a preliminary PUD development stage plan for a recycling and composting facility including source separated organic waste composting and wood processing and recycling capabilities subject to the stipulations listed in the planning memo dated November 13, 2025. [54:23] **Commissioner:** I'll second that motion. [54:23] **Chair Zimmer:** We have a motion and a second. Miss Erickson, can you take the role, please? **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Palooza? **Commissioner Palooza:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Zimmer? **Chair Zimmer:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Ike? **Commissioner Ike:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Swanson? **Commissioner Swanson:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Sweeny? **Commissioner Sweeny:** I. **Clerk (Miss Erickson):** Duckworth? **Commissioner Duckworth:** I. [54:41] **Chair Zimmer:** Again, the eyes have it. The motion prevails. Thank you so much and good luck with the project. It sounds great. I took all my pumpkins to the pumpkin drop, but maybe coming your way in the future. So, thank you so much. look forward to it and possibly a tour. [laughter] Don't you think? [54:57] **Commissioner:** Yeah. [54:57] **Chair Zimmer:** Uh, next item is any staff notices and Miss Jensen already told us that um the above items are going to be considered on December 1st for city council. Our next planning commission is scheduled for December 4th. And do we have a planning manager memo at all? It's in there. I'm sorry I didn't read it. Okay. uh items to to uh I don't think we have anything else so adjourn the meeting. Thank you.