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September 5, 1979 The special meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission was called to order at 8:15 p.m., September 5, 1979 by Chairman Ken Gourley. Members present: Bob Doocey, Jerome Heath, and Lawrence Johnson. Members absent: James Shearen, Vernon Reinert, Vi Schwenk! and Council Liaison John McLean. Also present were Mr. Short, City Planner, and his associate, Kevin Locke; Mr. Gotwald, City Engineer; and Mayor Karth. Mr. Gourley noted that the purpose of the meeting was to discuss land use in general, and some of the motivating factors behind using it in particular ways. The meeting was turned over to Mr. Short for his presentation. Mr. Short reviewed the Comprehensive Plan process, of'which updating the existing land use plan was an important part. There were a certain number of requirements which Metro Council had stipulated that were not covered in the existing plan, which would need to be added. For purposes of general dis cussion, he had broken down land use into three major categories; commercial, industrial, and residential. With the discussion and input from this meeting he would be drafting a land use plan, which would be presented to the P & Z on October 26; any decisions or comments at that time would be incorporated into the final draft for adoption. The subsequent phases would be the study of public facilities --parks, sewers and thoroughfares. The last phase of the Comprehensive Plan, the implementation phase, would include a housing implemen- tation plan, a capital improvements plan and revisions of the City existing ordinances to reflect the decisions made in the land use plan. This would address density, a zoning district map, a budget for improvement for roads, parks and sewers, and so forth. Mr. Short had a series of drawings prepared which were consulted and used as illustrations throughout the discussions. Mr. Short first addressed the circumstances affecting the land use and development in Lino Lakes. The list of influences were: thoroughfares, interchanges, regional parks, lakes wetlands --very severe soils, and ex- isting development patterns. The number of lakes and wetlands were a sig- nificant factor as related to building on -site sewer systems and foundations for structures. Together the lakes and wetlands, parks, and the interstate highways cut through the City in a diagonal, basically dividing the City into two geographical parts (northwest/southeast) and acted as a barrier to movement through the City, with the exceptions of Main Street and Birch Street. Interchanges were important factors to development in suburbs; they were access points for residents from local collector streets and neighborhoods to the interstate highway and into the urban employment centers; they became very important as growth centers or "nodes" with activity spreading outwards from them. Presently there was more growth near the Lake Street-35W inter- change than the Main Street-35E interchange. Centerville could also be considered in relation to any land use planning. Mr. Short reviewed the map from the Anoka County Soil Conservation Service, which had been done before the soil survey was completed, summarizing in color the areas that had limitations to development, ranging from slight to very severe. The best Lino Lakes had in any amount was soil with moderate limitations (yellow). There was a diagonal corridor of mariginal limitations soils along old Highway 8, which was a factor in development there. The wet areas in the northwest were all currently sodfarms, and would probably remain that way for sometimes as there were very serious limitations for development in that area.