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• Council Member O'Donnell moved to close the aring at 7:52 p.m. Council Member Carlson seconded the motion. Motion carried unan ��x•u - EXCERPT OF COUNCIL MINUTES JUNE 25, 2001 Another area is also on our property. It's zoned, umm, on the map here, low density sewered residential. But that property has been committed to the Minnesota Land Trust which is a commitment from us and it will be backed up legally by them that that will never be developed. And, it certainly won't be sewered. So that is shown as sewered. And, also, there are three areas here shown as greenways that are clearly lakes of 200 acres in size or greater. And, I think that that's misleading. That would be Otter Lake, Lake Amelia, and Cedar Lake. They're all designated on the map as greenways and they should be blue, they're water. And, and if we do want linked greenways, if we wanted to have valid good greenways, we'd have to link them. We can't just put pockets of green here and there because they aren't going to go 100 miles to get the groceries. They need to be contiguous. They need to be linked and I think that that was all represented in the, umm, document that our Environmental Board and the citizens on the Environmental Task Force worked real hard to get. A contiguous greenspace plan so that eventually we'd link them with walking paths or not walking paths, maybe just for wildlife passage. But, we did want them to be actually, umm, viable as habitats and they aren't as th and. You can't, can't disconnect them like they are. So, I'm just asking, there are certai he Comp Plan that I would like us to paint over them with white and start fresh. Th MAYOR BERGESON: Okay. Anybody else that tonight? Anybody else which to speak? Okay. Then, public hearing. ance to speak last week or accept a motion to close the