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TO:Mayor and City Council FROM:Ron Moorse, City Administrator DATE:August 4,1997 SUBJECT: Proposed New Uses at Hennepin County DOT Shop Hennepin County currently has a highway department buildmg and yard on County Road 1^5 m Orono at ihe boarder of Orono and Spring Park. The site is approximately 5 to 6 acres md h^ a small building. A map is attached showing the site and the building. Several additional uses ate being considered for this site. These are as follows: Hennepin County is planning to use a portion of the site for salt/sand storage. The lake area City Managers/Administrators have been discussing two cooperative efforts that could make use of a portion of the site or building. These are as follows: a. A sand/aggiegate recycling operation. This involves sand that has been used for snow and ice control and excess aggregate such as pea rock or granite chips that have been for seal coating. The recycling process is to screen the sand and aggregate to remove dirt etc. so that it can be reused rather than disposed of. This saves disposal costs and reduces the amount of new sand and aggregate needed. b. Animal impound facility. The south lake cities have recently been placed on notice that the facility they currently use for impounding animals (mostly dogs) wll no longer be available to them after 1998. The city of Orono has also been advised that there is some potential that the impound facility currently used by the city (Wright Humane Society) could relocate to Buffalo. The lake area cities have been pursuing other options for animal impound facilities. At this point there are no vet clinics that are interested in serving as an impound facility The lake area cities are considering a jointly owned and operated impo^d facility This would be a small facility with all animals being housed inside. The Hennepin County DOT site has been identified as a potential site for an impound facility. A letter asking Hennepin County whether it would consider allowing Ihe recycling and/or impound uses on the site is being prepared. Both the Spring Park City Administrator and 1 have indicated that we would want to insure that the new uses would not generate unacceptable noise levels, and that adequate measmes would be taken to prevent materials from the salt/sand storage and recycling operations from getting into the stormwater runoff. If any Councilniember has additional concerns regarding these potential uses please let me know. (. I (28).