Edina, city officials outline Concord flood-risk project; board signals need for more detail on land use

Edina school board members and city engineers on Monday discussed a proposed Concord flood-risk reduction project that would expand stormwater infrastructure between the Concord playground and the Southview parking lot and could remove the district’s need to construct a smaller stormwater system tied to a planned tennis-court upgrade.

The discussion, led by Mert Woodard, the district’s director of finance and operations, and Ross Spittner, engineering services manager for the city of Edina, centered on trade-offs: the city says a larger, shared facility would reduce future stormwater costs and create regional flood-risk protections, while board members warned it could encumber limited district land and restrict future uses.

Woodard said the district had planned a stormwater treatment tied to the…