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Home My WebLink AboutCouncil Information Memorandum 05-18-2017CITY OF PLYMOUTH COUNCIL INFO MEMO May 18, 2017 EVENTS / MEETINGS Official City Meeting Calendars ......................................................................................................... Page 2 Tentative List of Agenda Items ........................................................................................................... Page 5 CORRESPONDENCE Reguiding Rezoning and Preliminary Plat for Beacon Ridge located at 5225, 5305 and 5325 Dunkirk Lane North (2017053) ................................................................... Page 8 REPORTS & OTHER ARTICLES OF INTEREST Met Council Preliminary Population Estimates ................................................................................ Page 10 With Imagination, Twin Cities Developer Finds New Life for 1980's-era Suburban Office Structures, Star Tribune .................................................................. Page 11 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 6:00 PM Walk with the Mayor Plymouth Creek Center 2 3 4 5 6 7 Kids Garage Sale Plymouth Creek Center 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 May 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION (PRAC) MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM HRA Meeting Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers NO HRA MEETING SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT MEMORIAL DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Financial Plan and Budget Goals, Lodging Tax Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Lodging Tax and Sexual Predator Ordinance Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Bark in the Park Hilde Performance Center Page 2 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 12:30 PM Northwest Green- way Ribbon Cutting Vicksburg Lane Pedestrian Bridge 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 June 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Review future trail projects Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM PARK & REC ADVISORY COMMISSION (PRAC) MEETING Plymouth Creek Center 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (HRA) MEETING Medicine Lake Room CHANGES ARE NOTED IN RED 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Music in Plymouth 5K Run/Walk Hilde Performance Center 5:30 PM SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING Police Body-Worn Cameras Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers Page 3 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 NO REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 July 2017 3400 Plymouth Boulevard Plymouth, MN 55447 OFFICIAL CITY CALENDAR Phone: 763-509-5000 Fax: 763-509-5060 7:00 PM ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE (EQC) MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (HRA)MEETING Medicine Lake Room 7:00 PM REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chambers SUN TUES MON WED THUR FRI SAT 7:00 PM PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Council Chambers 30 31 INDEPENDENCE DAY CITY OFFICES CLOSED 5:30 PM - 10:30 PM Music in Plymouth Hilde Performance Center Page 4 Tentative Schedule for City Council Agenda Items June 13, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Review future trail projects June 13, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Continued hearing on lodging tax •Announce Music in Plymouth and 5k Run •Public hearing on Wine and On-Sale 3.2 Malt Liquor License applications of GC 8028 LLC, d/b/a Kai & I, 3355 Plymouth Boulevard #180 June 27, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Police body-worn cameras June 27, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Proclaim August 1 as “Night to Unite” July 25, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Announce Kids Fest on August 3 August 8, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers August 15, Special, 6:00 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Budget and CIP August 22, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Budget and CIP August 22, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers August 29, Special, 6:00 p.m. Medicine Lake Room (if needed) •Budget and CIP September 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Announce Plymouth on Parade on September 23 •Approve 2018 proposed budget, preliminary general property tax levy, HRA levy and budget hearing date September 26, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers October 10, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers October 24, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers November 14, Special, 5:30 p.m. Medicine Lake Room •Budget Page 5 November 14, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers November 28, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers December 12, Regular, 7:00 p.m. Council Chambers •Public hearing on 2018 budget, general property tax levy, HRA levy, and 2018-2022 Capital Improvement Program •Approve 2018 Target and Trap Shooting License renewal •Approve 2018 Amusement License renewals •Approve 2018 Tobacco License renewals Page 6 Budget Calendar 2018-2019 Biennial Budget Preparation & 5-yr Capital Improvement Plan Date Category Description April 17, 2017 Budget Departments receive budget instruction May 23 at 5:30 p.m. Budget Council Study Session – Financial Plan & Budget Goals April – June 2017 Budget Departments prepare budgets June 2, 2017 Budget Personnel changes submitted to HR June 12, 2017 Budget Budgets submitted to Finance June 26 – July 14, 2017 Budget Department meetings August 4 Budget Council receives budget materials for upcoming meeting August 15 at 6 p.m. Budget & CIP Council study session (Budget & CIP meeting #1) August 22 at 5:30 p.m. Budget & CIP Council Study Session (Budget & CIP meeting #2) Council Regular Session (Financial Overview & Audit Presentation) August 29 at 6 p.m. Budget & CIP Council Study Session (Budget meeting #3) (if needed) September 12, 2017 Budget Council adopts preliminary levies & budget (Budget meeting #4) October 4, 2017 CIP Planning Commission public hearing November 14 at 5:30 p.m. Budget Council Study Session (Budget meeting #5) (If needed) December 12, 2017 Budget & CIP Budget Public Hearing, CIP, Budget & Levy Adoption December 26, 2017 Budget Levy is certified with Hennepin County Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Met Council Preliminary Population Estimates Page 10 BUSINESS 422042563 With imagination, Twin Cities developer finds new life for 1980s- era suburban office structures The makeover of a Plymouth building illustrates a trend to reimagine space. By Don Jacboson Special to the Star Tribune MAY 12, 2017 — 9:45AM Don Jacobson, Special to the Star Tribune Yellow Brick Road owner Kristy Couture, center, with school director Kylie Schrader, said working with building owner J. Lindsay, left, to create a space that worked for them was a big advantage.“We could design it the way we expected our program to function,” Couture said. With traditional corporate tenants continuing to turn up their noses at functionally obsolete suburban office buildings, the owners of such properties are having to get creative in adapting them for other uses. Page 11 J. Lindsay, principal of the Minnetonka-based Lindsay Group, is among a handful of local developers and landlords who can look at a tired, 1980s-era structure and envision it working for an entirely different use that fits today’s market. After rehabbing buildings in St. Louis Park, Mankato and elsewhere, his latest example is a 31-year-old, single-story office building at 3200 Harbor Lane N. in Plymouth. For years it housed the local offices of United Rentals, which had 71 employees working in the 12,000-square-foot building. The equipment rental company, however, shuttered the office in 2015 and left the building empty. It fell into what has become a black hole in the commercial real estate market for “Class B & C” office buildings. The vacancy rate for such properties in the northwest metro stood at nearly 35 percent in early 2016 and remains at around 25 percent, according to statistics compiled by Cushman & Wakefield/Northmarq. The reason is changing tastes among office users. Such 1980s-era office buildings were designed for individual cubicles to be tightly packed together, with little natural light and next to no open space. Those concepts are exactly the opposite of what is now in favor: open floor plans, common spaces and big windows. Property owners, faced with few office takers and high operating expenses, are thinking outside the box and working with non-office tenants to re-imagine those buildings. Education users such as preschools and charter schools have become a dominant force in the tenant market in recent years. When Yellow Brick Road Early Childhood Development Center was looking to expand into new space, Lindsay said he could see a future for his 3200 Harbor Lane property. “It was tired and dated inside, so we converted it, and it’s been a great fit,” he said. “They were at a church up the street with 65 kids and had a long waiting list, so we stepped up and partnered with them [on a 20- year lease]. Now they’re at 135 students.” The rehab effort was extensive, including all new plumbing, ripping out the old office fixtures and rebuilding to the specifications of Yellow Brick Road. A big part of the effort was converting unused space in the back of the building into a sprawling new playground area. The customized interior redesign concentrated on “bridging the gap between home and school” with materials and floor plans that emphasize the family-like place preschools occupy, said school director Kylie Schrader. Page 12 One big advantage many of these 1980s-era office buildings have is that while they may be functionally obsolete, they frequently boast top-notch locations along suburban transit corridors, boosting their attractiveness for upfront reinvestment costs. Yellow Brick Road owner and administrator Kristy Couture said the opportunity to remake an existing building just off the intersection of Interstate 494 and Hwy. 55, while also working with an accommodating landlord, was a big enticement. “It’s a great location in that it’s directly correlated to that busy interchange, but not right on it,” she said. “We love that it’s very accessible to it, but we’re still kind of hidden in the background. We have parents who go to work on Hwy. 55 and appreciate that it’s on the way.” The willingness of Lindsay Group to meet their specifications made the prospect of moving into a rehabbed office building more attractive than searching for months for a suitable existing space. “We could design it the way we expected our program to function, which includes something a bit different in the industry in that we’re partnering with colleges on new ways to get young people interested in early childhood education careers,” Couture said. “So, for instance, we could include a conference room in the plans. That’s something we just couldn’t find out there, and believe me, we looked.” Don Jacobson is a freelance writer based in St. Paul. He is the former editor of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Real Estate Journal. Page 13