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Councilmember Woestehoff replied not if they did a cul-du-sac with a bib on it. <br /> <br />Mr. Orcutt replied they would have to get in front of that business and give them a reasonable <br />access. He stated he thought there should be consideration on how to handle it if someone tries to <br />put a private drive back there. He thought they should keep that in mind if the City sells that <br />property someday if they will allow a driveway back there or not. He stated the County will try to <br />recoup as much as possible for the project in the end. He stated he thought that made sense for <br />the tax payer. He stated eventually they will have to give to Mn/DOT what they want, dedicate <br />back to the City what they need for the frontage road and then those locations the City will dispose <br />of. He stated maybe they have no value. <br /> <br />Mayor Kuzma asked for Council comment. <br /> <br />Councilmember Riley commented he wouldn’t want to extend it based on a safety standpoint. <br /> <br />Councilmember Specht commented he would lean toward allowing it to extend. <br /> <br />Councilmember Howell commented she preferred the shorter one. <br /> <br />Councilmember Heineman commented he preferred the shorter one also. <br /> <br />The consensus of the Council was to keep it with the original plan. <br /> <br />Mr. Orcutt replied that is what they will do. <br /> <br />2.02: Continued Discussion on 2023 Budget/Levies <br /> <br />Finance Director Diana Lund continued discussion on the 2023 budget with a focus on road <br />funding. She distributed three handouts to Council and reviewed the information related to tax <br />capacity value estimates and housing prices. <br /> <br />Councilmember Specht asked if the increase was mainly due to house value or does the City have <br />that many more houses. He asked, hypothetically, if two years from now house prices crash and <br />there is a high budget now and house values go down significantly. Or is it that there are more <br />buildings and houses. <br /> <br />Finance Director Lund replied it is everything. It is new construction based off of a year or two <br />ago, because it takes a couple years to come online, and then because what houses are selling for. <br />She stated it is all encompassing. <br /> <br />Finance Director Lund reviewed the handout related to roads. She stated at the last couple of <br />Public Works meetings that there is a so-called bubble of about $13 million worth of road costs <br />that they are looking at improving over the next ten years so everything doesn’t come online all at <br />once again. She asked City Engineer/Interim Public Works Director Westby if that was correct. <br /> <br />City Council Work Session /July 26, 2022 <br />Page 11 of 19 <br /> <br />