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April 11,11979 2 7 3 Mr. McLean explained that this City will prepare what we feel is an adequate Comprehensive Plan to submit to Metro Council. Metro will review and point out the areas that do not conform with their overall pain. The City then tries to negotia+e their position, The next problem is density, We need to develop some numbers to go along with these various definition of density. Mr. Gourley said he found his notes from two years ago that says trite Board then was thinking of reducing house square footage. He brought this up at this time to let the Board know that reducing footage is not a new idea. Regarding supporting ordinances; three areas to be looked at: 1. Street lighting - Mr, Gourley suggested.contacttng NSP'and Anoka Electric and ask them to supply materials and cost information. 2. House numbers - The plan should include someicriteraln platting so that there will be uniformity to house numbers. Mr. Mobley noted that there is a mailing going out'of the office soon that asks each house and busi- ness to post their street numbers. Mr. Gourley asked the Clerk for the police files regarding wrong house numbers. Mr. Johnson asked how these house numbers are presently assigned. Mr. Mobley explained. Mr. John- son noted a recent plat that had a street name already used in this City. Mr. McLean said it was caught and changed. 3. Another area of -controversy is the area of natural gas. Mr. Gourley wondered if there was a way to determine who will service the natural gas in the initial platting stages. Mr. McLean noted that Mr. Locher had some suggestions in this area. Mr.Gotwald said he did not feel the Clerk should identify the utility that serves a particular area. 1'1 4. Another area to be looked at is the sign ordinance. Mr. Gourley said he felt the ordineoce is alright but needs to be enforced. 'It still i has not been approved by the State of Minnesota. Mr. Mobley noted one problem is getting sign owners to maintain their signs. Mr. Gourley asked the Board members if they have suggestions regarding revising the Comprehensive Plan. Mr. Heath noted density as a real problem. There was further dicussion on this matter. Mr. Gourley noted you do not get difinite figures from the Metro Council. Mr. Shearen said there is a problem with zoning. 'We have not set a.pattern. Maybe we are at a point where we should zone part of the City. Mr. McLean noted that Metro was critical of our soils map in that the City broke it into only two categories, marginal and severe. We should review this, Metro wanted some set controls on some soil that the City did not re- quire control. Mr. Gotwald said that since our last presentation to Metro the State has prepared WPC - 40 for private on site septic systems. Mr. Johnson asked who is responsible for drain tile? Mr. Mobley said the pro- lem is the State Building Codes does not demand gutters on houees and usually in a plat the owner is responsible for gutters as well as furnishing his lot. Mr. Reinert asked if once this Board gets into this plan and start changing a few things is going of have a domino effect and throw the present plan out of kilter? We may be back to ground zero and do the entire thing from scracth Mr. Shearen felt that this is\just an update and maybe more definitive.