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• • PLANNING AND ZONING WORK SESSION August 9, 1989 The Worksession began at 6:30 p.m. in the Lino Lakes Conference Room. Members present were: Charles Prokop, Alan Irwin, Robert King, and Al Robinson. Also present were City Planner, John Miller; Building Official, Pete Kluegel; and Planning Secretary, Laura Elken. The board discussed establishing a policy as to the subdivision of rural parcels. Several ideas were brought up from claiming easements around the perimeter of the land to asking the applicant to hire a surveyor and platting out streets. John Miller suggested that City Engineer, Ron Stahlberg look at these individual parcels, and ask him to determine where the road should be placed. That will cost the city some money, but the city would have control over the street placement, and it wouldn't cost the city near as much as if the applicant had to bear the expense. Alan Irwin said that it would cost as much as $5,000 for a surveyor to plat out a 20 acre parcel, and it would just take a couple of hours for the cit engineer to establish road placement. John Miller would like to see the minimum lot size in a rural zone to be 20 acres instead of 10. He feels it is much easier to subdivide a 20 acre parcel, and he sees a potential . problem in the future, how is the city going to handle subdivision of many 10 acre lots. Charles Prokop said he was ambivilant on a 10 acre or 20 acre minimum. The board decided on a two part decision. First of all regarding subdivision of rural land in areas where there already exists a city street map as worked out by the City Engineer, Ron Stahlberg. In those areas where the city street map exists, easements would be granted to the city, so that this property could be tied into these city streets. The second part reads that in areas of the city that have not yet established city streets by the city engineer, when land is subdivided, the city staff and city engineer would be called in to recommend to land owners where the city streets would probably be located, and easements would be granted based on recommendations by the city engineer. The proposed roads will be on the title, and will be legally filed at the court house. Meeting adjourned at 6:59 p.m.