2025 Budget for the City of Shakopee

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2025 Annual Budget

Division: Planning & Development Category: General Government

Description of Services: Provide efficient and inclusive planning and management for the city’s ongoing development in concert with the City Council and various boards and commissions. This includes providing land use, zoning, and related information to the city’s residents, businesses, city clients and other units of government. Also prepares and updates the city’s Comprehensive Plan as well as other special planning studies. Provides planning and design services for the placement and improvements to the city’s park system. Planning staff also serves as the liaisons to the City Council, Planning Commission, and Board of Adjustments.

Employees:

2022

2023

2024

2025

Director of Planning & Development

0.4

0.4

0.4

0.4

Senior Planner

3 1

3 1

3 1

3 1

Planner

Total

4.4

4.4

4.4

4.4

Accomplishments:  The city annexed more than 260 acres south of CH 78 for the DR Horton development, Highview Park. The 600+ home subdivision now has more than 50 homes available.  Summerland continues to grow, with Weekly Homes now building homes there along with Lennar and others.  The Hauer Farm site Valleyview began lot development as “Arbor View” by Lennar.  OPUS completed construction of 500,000 square feet of Business Park construction in the West End.  Plans continue for the completion of Canterbury Southwest Development with approval of a new corporate office building. Also approved was the Trackside Development, a 10,000 square foot restaurant and event space.  Shakopee Gravel completed an EAW for redevelopment and submitted plans for an estimated $375 million development. Goals/Challenges:  Growing community with expected 60,000 residents by 2040 with much of that growth occurring in land being annexed from Jackson Township

Performance Measures:

Actual 2022

Actual 2023

Projected 2024

Projected 2025

Number of Case Files

35

78

65

60