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MEMORANDUM To: Members of the Planning Commission CC: Heather Worthington, City Administrator; Peter Lindstrom, Council Liaison From: Deb Jones, Staff Liaison Subject: Planning Commission Meeting on October 28 Date: October 23, 2003 With October starting on a Wednesday, the Planning Commission falls in the fifth week, but it is the fourth Tuesday! I hope nobody was confused. The Commission is meeting this coming Tuesday, October 28, at the regular time. Once again, the business meeting will be short. There will be an update on the SE Corner project. • You should all have received an invitation to the groundbreaking on October 29. Also, I will have a brief update on the parking issue in Falcon Woods (which will be a regular agenda item next month). The enclosed copy of a letter from the Mayor is an example of one of the things we are trying to relieve the situation. The meeting will adjourn to another workshop, continuing your review of the City zoning ordinance. This packet includes another piece of Chapter 9 to put into the binders you received last month - although I don't think we will get this far. I would like to move on to Section 2, although we will probably come back to the definitions section often. Heather reminded me to assure you that the City will hire consultants to do the actual rewriting of the code, so you don't need to worry too much about details of wording. The Commission's task is to make note of general areas that need special attention and anticipate areas that may need to be added. At your request, I contacted City Attorney Roger Knutson to ask his help finding some model codes with which you could compare ours. He particularly recommended the codes of Plymouth and Burnsville, which represent the work of the two major consulting firms which work with Minnesota cities on their codes. Both of these cities have their codes on the Web. I have enclosed instructions for getting to the right web pages, and I will add links to our Falcon Heights Planning Commission pages for your convenience. Rather than print out the many, many pages, I am requesting that you take a look at the relevant sections as we go along. If there are particular excerpts you would like me to print out for the Commission, I would be glad to do so. Please call or email me on Monday if there is anything you would like copied for everyone in time for Tuesday's meeting. •