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• CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION December 3, 2007 APPROVED 167 consideration of the need to look at other streets, that street will be held off for some 168 time. 169 The public hearing will be put on the calendar. The council requested that the hearing 170 and document approval not be scheduled for the same meeting.. 171 West Oaks Utility Improvements - Petition Questionnaire — City Engineer Studenski 172 recalled that a petition was submitted by 47% of the property owners in the West Oak 173 subdivision. The council directed staff to prepare a letter and resident questionnaire to 174 get more information (particularly from residents who didn't sign the petition) on going 175 forward with a feasibility study. 176 Staff has proposed a letter and is requesting direction from the council on the 177 acceptability of the information provided in that letter, including the level of detail. They 178 are recommending that a specific feasibility study cost not be included although a general 179 figure per property could be estimated and included. 180 Suggestions for change in the letter: clarify that the $20,000 to $30,000 is a cost per 181 property; clarify that the cost estimates would correlate to improvements in the area of 182 the street and would not include a long connection to a property located farther from the 183 roadway. 184 Staff was directed to include a figure of $500 as an estimate of property owner cost for 185 feasibility information. 186 The council may consider a goal to put a more solid process into place for consideration • 187 of these requests. 188 189 2008 Comprehensive Plan Process Update- Community Development Director 190 Grochala explained that the Comprehensive Plan Advisory Panel has submitted a 191 proposed Land Use Plan. The proposed plan depicts ultimate build out of the city in 192 order to include evaluation of long term system needs. The proposed plan will be 193 presented at a city open house on December 4 and comments received will be 194 incorporated into the future planning process. 195 As an update on the process and advisory panel, there remains a core group of about 15 196 members who are participating consistently. Staff remains committed to bringing the 197 plan to the council around April. 198 Hartford Group (minutes of November 5, 2007 work session) — Clerk Bartell noted 199 that the council held these minutes from the last council agenda based on a question 200 about the clarity of the portion regarding discussion of the Hartford Group development. 201 That portion of the minutes has been revised and presented for review. 202 Council Member Carlson expressed concern that there was discussion about the change 203 in the ratio of rental to owner but the minutes don't reflect that the council did not concur 204 with any change nor did they grant any type of approval to the rental housing proposal. 205 Minutes should be removed from the council agenda of December 10, 2007 and Council 206 Member Reinert should be given an opportunity to review the revised minutes. • 207 Review of December 10 regular meeting agenda