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Oak Park Heights
Request for Council Action
Meeting Date October 9th, 2012
Time Required: 10 Minutes
Agenda Item Title: St Croix River Crossing -- Parking Lot
Agenda Placement Old Business
Originating Department/Requ tp ►c Johnson Cit Administrator
Requester's Signature ,4
Action Requested See Below
Background /Justification (Please indicate if any previous action has been taken or if other public
bodies have advised):
Please see the attached memo dated 10/5/12.
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City of Oak Park Heights
14168 Oak Park Blvd. N • Box 2007 • Oak Park Heights, MN 55082 • Phone (651) 439 -4439 • Fax (651) 439 -0574
October 5 2012
MEMO
TO: City Council Members •
FROM: Eric Johnson, City AdminiitratDr /
RE: Phil Tara's Parking Lot Mauer i
On Wednesday, October 3 2012, Mark Vierling and I had organized a meeting with the following individuals to discuss the
parking lot matter as the City Council anticipates taking this item up for further discussion on October 9`
Phil & Nick Barbatsis, Phil Tara's Hideaway
Eric Thole, Attorney for Phil Tara's
Randy Capra, Xcel Energy
James Zyduck, Xcel Energy
Jon Chiglo, MNDOT
Adam Josephson, MNDOT
Overall the meeting was positive and went very well. The NEW turn of events that came from the meeting was that Xcel Energy
is willing to transfer the real property interest directly to Phil Tara's without the need for the City becoming an intermediary.
This is the optimal solution as upon further review the City would likely have had a difficulty owning a parking lot for a private
entity to lease as the City's insurance policies and statutory immunities for park /governmental purposes would be
compromised. This would be in addition to a need to seek major amendments to the Park Licensure Agreement between the
City and Xcel Energy.
As it relates to the City's twenty parking spaces, sharing a parking lot with Phil Tara's is practiceable so long as the City's twenty
spaces are clearly delineated. Phil Tara's will exclusively have their own maintenance and operational policies for their areas of
the lot as the City will on its parking spaces. A map is expected to be received by the City from MNDOT (not yet received as of
2:45pm on 10/5/12) that will best depict this much agreed upon course of action.
These items will take some additional discussion and possibly a need for a four -party agreement that would allow this process
to proceed as well as an administrative MINOR SUBDIVISION of property, splitting of a parcel from the fly -ash property to be
attached to Phil Tara's property with cross — easements to the City for access. When I have the map from MNDOT it will express
the concepts better than this narrative. I will email out to you when I have it and hopefully well in advance of the City Council
meeting
Possible Action /Discussion: Authorize Staff to continue to work with the involved parties to come to an formal agreement
meeting the concepts discussed above and that should such Agreement be satisfactory to the City Council, the further need
for a Conditional Use Permit by Xcel Energy be waived by the City Council.
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