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1 1 1 COUNCIL MEETING APRIL 27, 1992 Bergeson said he does acknowledge that six (6) or seven (7) procedures have been put in place to improve the approval process of residential development. However, in his opinion, there is only one (1) item on the list that significantly addresses the moratorium issue and it is the procedure that says, "the City is working to develop a process by which the City can evaluate a development and its impact on the community in the following areas; financial, infrastructure and education ". He said he felt that is the type of thing that the City should be doing during this moratorium and unfortunately to date he has not seen much substance applied to that concept. He said he was happy to see this on the list. Council Member Bergeson explained that in July, 1991 the City of Lakeville enacted a moratorium on residential development. He noted that was a reaction to a building boom that was much more intensive that what was being experienced in Lino Lakes. Their housing starts were about 700 a year and they also had a backlog of about seven (7) years supply of platted lots throughout the City. Council Member Bergeson explained that the City of Lakeville approached their moratorium in a very focused way. They hired two (2) consultants from the Humphrey Institute who spent the first six (6) weeks of the moratorium developing a fiscal impact analysis which quantified the impact of various types of development. They choose 16 representative areas of the City and compared the revenue generated by each area with the cost of city services provided to that area. The analysis was very sophisticated and not the thing that can be easily done "in house ". When the analysis was completed the City of Lakeville know the impact of all the various types of development. After completion of the fiscal impact analysis, the City of Lakeville appointed a 21 member task force of the brightest and best people they could find including a bank president, CEO and the superintendents of the three (3) schools districts. The task force has met every two (2) weeks since January and have heard presentations from a wide range of experts on growth. Council Member Bergeson explained that from now until July they will use this data to develop guidelines for future developments. He said the point of mentioning all of this about Lakeville is that in his opinion, "I do not think Lino Lakes has done what should be done during the moratorium if the moratorium is to be in place ". Council Member Bergeson said that the City Council should commit the resources to do significant analysis of Lino Lakes status or end the moratorium. He noted that other cities that have imposed moratoriums and have not taken decisive steps to understand where they were have become involved in legal actions and in some cases have even lost in court. Council Member Bergeson made one (1) final point regarding commercial development. He said everyone agrees that Lino Lakes needs some commercial development, however, he expressed concern about the negative image the PAGE 7 293