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City of Falcon Heights Planning Commission Minutes September 23, 2003 Chair Tom Lageson called the meeting to order at 7:04 p.m. PRESENT: Commissioners Tracy, Lageson, Lukermann, Ryan, Maher, DeLeo, Council MemhPr Lindstrom. Also present was Staff Liaison Deb Jones. ABSENT: Ziebarth, Harris, Heideman ~~~ ~z The minutes of the September 23, 2003, meeting were approved. s' INFORMATION AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ~~ Staff Liaison Jones said that the City is trying some alternate methods of disc~u~u~~,~~ excessive parking by University of Minnesota students and staff on Garden Avenue in Falcon Woods. Mayor Gehrz had written a letter which was made available to residents to place on the windshields of cars. The letter asks non-resident car owners to vary their parking pattern so as not to inconvenience individual residents and to consider other parking solutions. One such solution is an offer by Twin City Co-op to rent parking space by the month at a very reasonable rate. The Mayor has spent quite a lot of time in the neighborhood recently and said to Staff that she does not see bumper-to-bumper parking taking up the whole street. Ms. Jones said she did not know if the curve had been posted for restricted parking, as has been discussed; she will find out. The Commission will revisit parking on Garden as a regular agenda item in November. The groundbreaking ceremony for the SE Corner is tomorrow, October 29, at 3:00 p.m. Planning Commissioners are invited to attend. Ms. Jones said residents are encouraged to walk to the site, if possible, because parking will be limited. Entry is on the Arona Street side. Demolition began on October 13 and has taken longer than expected because there was more refuse left in the building than expected and the materials are being sorted for recycling. Also, the old shopping center is proving to have extraordinarily tough construction, according to the contractor. Commission Lageson said he heard from a resident who was distressed about the amount of dust being raised by the demolition. The site should be watered down to reduce the amount of dust. Ms. Jones said she would communicate that concern to the City Administrator. Commissioners were polled for their availability to form a quorum in November and December. A quorum being able to attend in November, that meeting will be held on the usual date, Tuesday, November 25. However, the December meeting, scheduled for December 23, will be cancelled by consensus. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 7:15 p.m. to a workshop on the zoning code. Respectfully submitted, Deborah Jones, Staff Liaison • City of Falcon Heights -Planning Commission Meeting of October 28, 2003 -Page 1 of 1