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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION <br />DATE: <br />ITEM NO: ^V <br />Department Approval: <br />Name Ron Moorsc <br />Title Citv Administrator <br />Administrator Reviewed: <br />Item Description: <br />Tandem Properties Development <br />Agenda Section: <br />City Administrator ’s <br />Repon <br />Attachments: Jeanne Mabusth ’s Packet of Information <br />Staff has met with Dick Putnam of Tandem Properties to discuss the direction prov ided by the <br />Council regarding the subdivision application. He is in agreement with each of the dements of <br />the Council ’s action except the retjuirement that Outlet A be dedicated to the City for park land <br />without a credit toward the park dedication fee. <br />Mr. Putnam has expressed concern with the requirement that the Outlot A be dedicated as park <br />land but not credited toward the park dedication is contrary to the City’s park dedication <br />ordinance. The ordinance indicates the City may require the dedication of land or cash in lieu <br />of land. It does not provide for the City to both obtain land and receive a park dedication fee <br />for the same land. <br />It is staffs understanding that the reason the Council is requesting the dedication of Outlot A <br />as park land is due to the parcel being a sacred site, rather than for general park use. Mr. <br />Putnam of Tandem properties has indicated that Mrs. Dickey has identified the actual sacred <br />land site as a relatively small area, approximately 1/2 acre in size nea. the crest of the hill on <br />Outlot A. MnDOT has indicated they are no longer pursuing the sacred land issue because now <br />that th ’. p tentia! sacred land area has been reduced to the 3 acre parcel is no longer of <br />suffic itr sjznificance to MnDOT. The developer is now responsible for resolving the sacred <br />site issue. Based on the relatively minor extent of the sacred land area, the City may want to <br />consider the extent to which the site shouk ’ be preserved and the extent to which it should be <br />available to the public. <br />The developer has suggested three options for the Council to consider: <br />1. The developer dedicates the land to the City as public park and receives a credit for this <br />land against the park dedication fee. <br />2.The Outlot is retained as part of the subdivision, but as a private open space area to be <br />used and maintained by the homeowners association. The developer then would pay the <br />park fee related to the property.