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The special meeting of the Lino lakes Planning and Zoning Board was called to order by Chairman Gourley at 8:24 P.M. Wednesday, November 7, 1979. Members present; Gourley, Schwankl, Doocy, Heath. Members absent; Reinert, Shearen, Johnson. Mr. Short, City Planner and his assistant Kevin Locke, Marilyn Elsenpeter Councilman elect, Mayor Karth and Councilman McLean were also present. Mr. Gourley stated the agenda tonight will deal entirely with housing and turned the meeting over to Mr. Short. Mr. Short noted this Board wanted to address the housing section all at one time, thelissues, inventories, the goals and the policies as well as once you determine what you want to provide and what the implementation tools should be. Housing will be considered tonight and next Wednesday night and then there will be a review and look at the present ordinances and decide what changes or amendments'should.be considered.to reflect the changes. The last step will actually be a capital improvement program which shows how the City will implement some of the changes that are suggested. Mr. Short prepared a brief housing data inventory based on Metro outlines. The outline was given to members. Mr. Short reviewed the Metro outline. His,goal was to hit the housing issues to get some direction on the issues plussatisfying therequirements of the Metro, Council. Mr. Locke said housing is a special element of any comprehensive plan. The reason Metro council has included 'it in the land plan is it relates to the problems today. Some problems are expense, (homes will probably become more expensive), kind of housing (all one type), and as the community gets older there gets to be a problem of meeting the needs of its residents. Mr. Heath asked for clarification. Mr. Locke said the idea is people at different stages of life require different housing and he further explained. There was a discussion between Mr. Locke, Mr. Short and Mr. Heath regarding younger people staying in Lino Lakes rather than moving into the City for job opportunities because the Cities are easily available by way of the interstate highway system. Mr. Locke suggested some rental property should be available for younger people who work here in Lino Lakes but cannot: afford to purchase. He continued on by saying what Metro Council had hoped to accomplish is that communities will be aware that there is a problem to understand the local implications and accept the idea that they could do something about it. Metro is looking for an inventory of existing characteristics of housing, _. some, projections of how much housing will be needed in the next ten years and then they would like to see some housing policies and some implementa- tion techniques on how community figures to make its policies come ,true. Mr. Locke referred to the Metro outline handout and explained that the in- formation comes from the 1970 census data and only gives a .hint of, what,cond itions mighttbe today and Metro wi'l l be re-evaluating. the tables after the 1980 census. �, I Specific data was discussed on the outline. i I The second table was population and Housing Projectidns, essentially past. history. The 1990 population prediction was discussed and Mr. Short said: essentially the Metro Council predicted on basis of being a irural.commun.ity and Mr. Short said that they are pasically predicting the region as a whole and the Lino Lakes portion of the pie is this. It ignores the fact than,. Anoka County is the fastest growing county,