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EXCERPT OF COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 25, 2001 • 26,500 or 6,000 over the prescribed limit. If you follow the Plan as it is now written, you simply can't get there from here. • • In summary, the Comp Plan as now worded on Page 65 would commit the City to an average of 147 new households annually through the year 2020. Translating households to people, that rate would add about 440 residents per year. If the final goal is 20,500, we would reach that goal in the year 2006 according to my calculations. And even that assumes that we can drop from our present rate of growth, which is about 800 per year, to 440 in one year. That's why I conclude that our Comp Plan is not ready to go anywhere except back to the drawing board at the present time. To accept the present draft of the Plan would be a sad ending to a process which, at the beginning, held so much promise, involved so many people, and cost so much time and money. Thank you. MAYOR BERGESON: Is there anyone else who did not speak , last week's meeting? Yes. MS. GRUNDHOFER: Good evening. My name is Come ndh`fer, G- r- u- n- d- h- o -f -e -r (235 Linda Avenue). I'm here to speak about keeping some and fauna that we have in Lino Lakes is very special. The People live in the community. So do plants and anima taking places away from them or fragment their place There'll be bird that won't come here anymore . + '11 be ace r the Comp Plan. The flora dartered, threatened species. ey need each other and if we keep on ill die. They will not exist anymore. p ants that will die. People, as we, would not want to go 100 mil to ro ry store. And, it's the same for the animals and the plants. They don't want to go 1Q nt1;=s to and food. And, we have a special place and we have a great opportunity now to keep ' . e ; se that is what the people had wanted. The majority of the people who moved = e ' the t1st place want it that way. They don't want to have a big huge city. They want to be < • toy -Ye their open spaces. They want their water quality to be good. Hundreds of years ago an �`r; • at this time, people, through not having the right knowledge or not planning it correctly, h.° cr=ated deserts. We would not be creating a desert here. But, we're certainly going to be taking of of special plants and animals that we have now and they will not exist anymore. Thank you. MAYOR BERGESON: Anyone else who didn't get a chance to speak at the last hearing? Okay. Now, how many of you spoke last time but would like to speak again? All right. We'll ask that you come up and, ahh, we to have a transcript of your comments from last time so (inaudible) a repeat of what we heard last time. We'll ask you to come up and you'll have the floor (inaudible) hear something else. Let's start on this side on down and we'll just go across. MR. DUNN: Good evening Council, staff, audience. My name is Donald Dunn. I live at 6885 Blackduck Drive. The spelling of the last name is D- u -n -n. If you would, the Quad Press, I'm the man, apparently, that spoke up. I'd rather be thought of as the citizen that came forth and expressed his opinion, than that man, "I am the man." I'm here to do so again tonight. And, I hope I