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EXCERPT OF COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 25, 2001
<br />And, I don't have a lot to say but I'm going to relate this Plan to an oil painting. And, I do some oil
<br />painting myself. And, I was taught early on that many layers make a beautiful painting. And, you
<br />start with thin layers and you work up to the painting little by little with little bits of little bits and
<br />pretty soon you've got a finished product. And, I was taught also that when your painting starts to get
<br />bad, when something is going wrong with it and you can't get back on track, that's the time that you
<br />take the canvass and you throw it in the fire or you, you, um (inaudible) Gesso over it and start fresh.
<br />And, I think it's at that point, that I would like to see us throw the canvass aside, or parts of it anyway.
<br />And, umm, I just see too many discrepancies in the numbers. I think that Mike was right that we are
<br />talking out of both sides of it. We're saying we are going to limit our growth, yet we're opening up the
<br />doors to just a lot of, a lot of trouble with developers. We've all seen it. People who've been involved
<br />with City Hall for a few years have seen the developers, people who land and hope to develop it
<br />someday, see this as a blank check and an opportunity to develop and a promise that later on they will
<br />be allowed that privilege of, of being rezoned. Because, to me, this says, "we will rezone you, Zones
<br />1 and Zones 2. You will get your promise of medium or low density, sewered residential or industrial
<br />or what ever it is." This, to me, is a promise, just from my experience ;,' here at City Hall for the
<br />past 15 years or something.
<br />I also want to say that I think the City has a responsibility to
<br />number. And, I think we were doing with little bits of lay
<br />working on these plans and we've been paying lots of " one
<br />that, umm, we had a number. To me it's 20,500 resi
<br />number and that was the number that I thought w �r<...ro
<br />residents, wanted to maintain a nice rural ambi
<br />keep the population in check.
<br />We didn't want to be Roseville, nor d'
<br />space around us. Like what Conni
<br />about Lino Lakes are the ecosy
<br />like so much about it, hearin_ "'`+gs
<br />rabbits even when they're ating
<br />cities don't any more. Th
<br />they've had all kinds of ad
<br />beautiful, wonderful, speci
<br />ation and cap it off at "X"
<br />these years we've been
<br />good solid product. And, I think
<br />e year 2020. Not to exceed that
<br />ed not to exceed because we, the
<br />in one way other. And, part of that was to
<br />e Woodbury. Umm, we wanted to have some
<br />as as (inaudible) is that, the things that love so much
<br />healthy little communities of plants and animals. That we
<br />night, or seeing the stars at night, or, umm, seeing deer or
<br />owers. And, just those nice little things that we have that other
<br />they've been chased out, they've been smashed on the roads,
<br />s. And, I think we still have an opportunity to maintain those
<br />alues here.
<br />And, now I'd like to go on to point out a couple of things about the greenways that are shown on the
<br />map here. I know that in my little corner of Lino Lakes, down in the southeast corner, there are some
<br />problems with the map. We talked on, a little bit about spot zoning. I'm not going to speak about the
<br />commercial corner of Centerville Road and County Road J. That's not my turf anymore. But, what I
<br />am going to speak about is the spot zoning, Zone 2, that is on the east part of Lake Amelia...I don't
<br />know if you want me to point at it or, umm, the sewer would have to get to it somehow and all I'm
<br />saying is that it would have to leap -frog right across our property to get to it, nearly a half a mile.
<br />And, I'm not ready to bear the burden of some developer's sewage expenses to get a development. So,
<br />that is one area that I think is a problem.
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