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COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 27, 2003 APPROVED 1 • 2 Councilmember Reinert asked if the Council took the units to be built at The Village and divided 3 them out, would the City not need to have a Comprehensive Plan amendment and go before the Met 4 Council. City Planner Smyser stated it would bring more problems with the Comprehensive Plan 5 than with the Met Council. He indicated it would be more of a problem to try to implement the 6 Comprehensive Plan. 7 8 Councilmember Reinert stated he was trying to determine if the conversation taking place was a real 9 scenario. He agreed with Councilmember Carlson that he would rather see 200 units than 400 units at 10 The Village, however he did not see how they could do anything except exclude it. 11 12 City Planner Smyser indicated that including the units at The Village would decrease the units 13 available elsewhere in the City to less than 100 a year, which would be very difficult to implement. 14 He stated there were probably sites that are ready to go that would push that for a number of reasons. 15 He indicated that reducing to that number would require a Comprehensive Plan amendment, and he 16 would have to think about what would need to be changed if the Council decides to do that. 17 18 Councilmember Reinert commented that the Council looked at the Comprehensive Plan that was 19 discussed years ago, and were now having new discussions. He questioned if the Council was doing 20 what the citizens want. 21 22 Mayor Bergeson stated the problem with dividing The Village and subtracting out some units each 23 year is that it will be many months before the City knows what that number is. He feels the Council 24 needs to put this ordinance in place and then that is where the City will go. He asked if all of the 25 changes were in the latest draft. City Planner Smyser indicated they were in the latest draft and the 26 memo distributed. He indicated the changes from the memo were to paragraph 5, adding paragraph 27 18 and amending paragraph 16. 28 29 Councilmember Carlson asked him to repeat the way paragraph 5 would read, which he did. Mayor 30 Bergeson asked him to read paragraph 18, which was read as well. 31 32 Councilmember Reinert moved to approve SECOND READING and adopt Ordinance No. 01-03, 33 Ordinance Creating a Growth Management Policy with the changes recommended by staff in the 34 memo dated January 27, 2003. Mayor Bergeson seconded the motion. 35 36 Councilmember Carlson indicated that if this is the best we can do as a Council, she would join in 37 voting for it; however, she stated that the Council was not doing what they set out to do. 38 39 Councilmember Reinert stated that growth in the City couldn't be managed until today. He stated 40 that 147 was agreed to and noted it took a long time to get here. He indicated that only as of today 41 will the Council have a tool to manage growth that has not been available until now. He stated that 42 they are achieving the goals of the city. 43 44 Mayor Bergeson indicated he was somewhat skeptical of how growth management will play out over 45 the next couple of years, and felt the Council may get legal challenges. He stated he was not sure this 46 was in the best interest of homeowners, landowners, or developers in Lino Lakes. He noted that Lino .47 Lakes would be making a contribution to urban sprawl, because if development can not happen here it 48 will happen in Forest Lake Township or Columbus Township. He stated that this is the plan the 16