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Public commenters press council on TIF garage, school pickup; commissions and proclamations approved
Summary
Public commenters urged the council to reject borrowing $20 million for a private TIF-backed parking garage, requested school-hour parking restrictions near Southview Middle School, and raised concerns about ICE, data privacy and Amazon contracts. Council confirmed commission appointments, adopted a school-bus-driver proclamation and presented a citizens award.
A range of public comments and routine items occupied the Edina City Council meeting on Feb. 17.
Ralph Sickert urged the council to reject a proposed $20 million borrowing to build a private parking garage at 7001 France Avenue with tax-increment financing tied to a developer’s unchanged proposal; Sickert described the site as a stalled TIF project that has remained undeveloped for years and criticized further taxpayer incentives. "Borrowing $20,000,000 for a parking garage the city does not need in the hope that sometime in the next 10 years…
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