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SPECIAL COUNCIL WORK SESSION OCTOBER 30, 2002 • Mayor Bergeson asked if a statement be included that public safety issues will supersede other road standards. Any statement regarding public safety would be beneficial. • • City Planner Smyser stated staff still has an issue with the roads and is continuing to work on that. He stated the Water Supply and Waste Disposal section are complete and the MUSA use was passed in 1997. The MUSA section is workable as it is. Mayor Bergeson asked if there is a hierarchy of ordinance. City Planner Smyser stated staff has not put that together yet. There is some redundancy and the City will have to decide if some of the verbage should be cut out. City Planner Smyser referred to the Sketch Plan noting staff wanted to make that more of a formal process. There are concerns about making statutory timelines of an application. The City Attorney and staff determined a formal process would not work. A Sketch Plan is not mandatory but is strongly suggested. The City does have alist of criteria for the Sketch Plan that would apply to the preliminary plat. A profession typically prepares a Sketch Plan. Councilmember Carlson suggested the term concept plan may be a better term to use for the Sketch Plan. She referred to the section rear g d dtng and preparing an application in regards to environmental issues. She asked what that means and if it can be made more clear. City Planner Smyser stated there are man issues. Staff knows these thresholds does determine if an EIS is necess Council. Councilmember Carlson stated t clearer. ry thresholds regarding environmental if an EAW is necessary. The Council no way takes the authority away from the two ways to read that and she would like it to be City Planner Smyser referre to the Preliminary Plan section noting it is mandatory. Several things have been ad d to this section and they are noted. Mayor Bergeson stated that over time the name of the Community Development Department may change. He suggested that may need to be considered in the document. City Planner Smyser stated the term Community Development Department should not affect the document because that term is the official name of the department. City Planner Smyser referred to the Yield Plan section noting language needs to be added related to conservation development. He defined the term urban cluster indicating it is possible to preserve some open space in areas that have sewer and water. A Yield Plan is a sketch that shows how a development would look under regular zoning as compared to a conservation development.