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Page 3 Planning and Zoning July 11, 1979 3. Comprehensive Sewer Plan. Mr. Gotwald is working on this. 4.. Drainage. This has to be dealt with fairly soon. Mr. Gotwald is drawing up some preliminary estimates as to the cost for developing this plan. This would be a Comprehensive Drainage and Ponding Plan, and along with that would be developed a map for the Building Depart- ment that would set a minimum elevation for basements in a specific district. Mr. McLean brought up that if benchmarks were established for the lakes, it would help in developing this map.. 5. Wetlands. Mr. Gotwald is preparing this as previously presented to the Planning and Zoning Commission. 6. Transportation (roads). Mr. Gotwald is working on this. 7. The 5-acre reqirement. 8. Review park dedication requirements. Mr. McLean suggested removing the need for commercial and industrial park dedications. 9. Protection of commercial zones. The possibility of rezoning areas that are zoned commercial but have residential development to allow for the residential only was suggested. The commercial or industrial zoning would be made up for elsewhere. Breaking up the strip zoning was also suggested. Reevaluating zone uses (not allowing lesser use) was considered. To avoid future problems, the agricultural zoning, which allows R-1 only, should be zoned specifically (R-1, R-2, etc.) So people know exactly what type of area they are moving into. 10. Adopt shoreline management. This dealswith pollution and so forth, and the location of houses near the shore; there is also classifica- tion of the lakes by type, which defines the use and development around them. 11. Third soil type. Soils of a "severe condition for building" type had been modified to "Severe" and marginal, and there had been a request to be more restrictive. Mr Reinert felt the Soil Conservation Service's soil surveys should be followed. 12. Attennas. Some committments had been made to WCCO an atenna situation and there was another request for an antenna from KSTP--they want to lease some land from the company that owns the present antenna and put one up on Birch Street. NorthwestwernBell's microwave attenna is down and there was a question as to whether there was ever a dem- olition permit. 13. WCP--40--this is in reference to sewers. WCP--40 is the state pollution control requirement for all on -site sustems. 14. Hangars in the Air Park. There was a committment to review a request to allow hangers in the Air Park. 15. House numbers. There is an old request from the Council to develop a house numbering policy in the application of numbers to vacant land. There is also some trouble areas that were misnumbered that needs to be straightened out. This affects both street names and numbers.. The present problem makes it difficult for fire and police services. 16. Sign Ordinance. The city theoretically has a choice of adopting its own sign ordinance and having it certified by the state or adopting the state ordinance. Apparently the state has never certified any of the local sign ordinances. There had been someone out to check on the ordinance, but it was not yet certified, and there was some question as to whether it would be.