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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12/05/2001 Council MinutesCITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DATE TIME STARTED TIME ENDED MEMBERS PRESENT MEMBERS ABSENT CITY OF LINO LAKES MINUTES : December 5, 2001 . 5:30 p.m. 6:55 p.m. : Council Member Da Reinert and Mayor Ber : None Staff members present: City Administrator, Linda Waite S Police, Dave Pecchia (part); Community Development Di Finance Director, Al Rolek; Police Officer Hammes (part DECEMBER 5, 2001 arlson, O'Donnell, eer, Chief of hael Grochala; lerk, Ann Blair ZONING/SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE UPD '° �,�l:� HAEL GROCHALA Interim Ordinance — Community Develop still proceeding with the ordinance to pro hearing will be held next Wednesday a public hearing will be noted in the new commercial/industrial developme tomorrow morning. Process — Community Dev, Brixius to set up a schedul� Th will take 3-4 months be -° tor Grochala advised the City is 1 plats for one year. The public d Zoning Board meeting. The The moratorium will not impact orium will be discussed with EDAC tor Grochala advised staff is working with Al ill begin with the subdivision ordinance and it g requirements will be tied in. Community DexcGrochala advised staff is recommending a task force be set up to work F tl ordinances: The ordinances need to be completed within one year. He suggeste a >:. resentatives from each City Board be on the task force. He recommended two (2 embers from each board that would include the Chair and one other member. It will determined if the Park Board needs to be involved at each meeting. The intent is that the task force will work through all the issues. Staff is also recommending that Mayor Bergeson be the Chairperson for the task force. A schedule will be laid out with meetings approximately once a month with information proved prior to each meeting. Meetings will be public but there will be specific designated times for public comment. The kick-off meeting would include a Government Training Service coming in to do a land use workshop. It is necessary that all members of the task force attend that seminar. CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 5, 2001 Mayor Bergeson asked if there are parts of the existing ordinance that will naturally transfer over to the new ordinance. Community Development Director Grochala advised key issues will be the focus. There are some details of the old ordinance that will transfer to the new ordinance. Mayor Bergeson stated some Councilmembers have concerns over the moratorium and the length of the moratorium. Community Development Director Grochala stated the intent is to have the new ordinances in effect before the moratorium expires. The moratorium will go into effect in late February if it is adopted on schedule. Mayor Bergeson stated that this process assumes the Metropolit the Comprehensive Plan. Community Development Director Gro Comprehensive Plan is complete except for the sanitary sewer pl the Comprehensive Plan approved in January or February. The Metropolitan Council is how the City will limit new housi per year. He stated he does not know of any other issues. ordinances that can be worked on before approval fro th received. uncil will approve ated the e is to have of the e of 147 homes good portion of the itan Council is Mayor Bergeson suggested staff ask the Metropole problems they see because the City wants to Development Director Grochala stated staff comments made by the Metropolitan Co„ Councilmember Reinert stated he is st moratorium. However, it is incre He asked if staff has any idea of Community Development need to be worked on. T and the zoning ordinance. to be worked o together. 1 about any conceptual mance process. Community started working on some of the o understand why staff is requesting a us to finish this process within one year. ces need to be changed and passed. ala stated staff has a list of the ordinances that y tw' ajor ordinances, the subdivision ordinance ere are many sections within the two ordinances that need put together a graph of how all the components go • Councilmember Rei rt stated the Comprehensive Plan needs to be approved before a moratorium is put in p ace. Then the City needs a graph of all the components of the two ordinances with a timeline for completion before the moratorium. Public comment should only be taken at the public hearings. Community Development Director Grochala stated the meetings are public, but he wants the task force to stay away from public debate. Citizens will have the opportunity to make comments at specified times. Councilmember Reinert stated the Comprehensive Plan is needed first and then the outline of what is needed with a timeframe. He asked if a task force is really necessary. 2 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 5, 2001 He stated the City has a Comprehensive Plan and he thought staff would work on the ordinances and then the City Boards would review them. The City needs a very precise plan of attack. Community Development Director Grochala stated staff does know what needs to be done in terms of the ordinances. There are a number of things that can be started without approval of the Comprehensive Plan. The concern is the City will have plats come in before the moratorium is in effect. The reference to the 147 homes in the Comprehensive Plan is not in itself enough to deny a subdivision. Councilmember Reinert stated he wants to see the process more "< . ly and then it can be determined if a moratorium is needed. The Council was told that e Comprehensive Plan was in effect, plats could be denied on the is of . zing residential growth to 147 homes per year. Community Development Director Grochala stated the pr land that is within the MUSA and is properly zoned. with a moratorium but he is more concerned about plat The City does not have additional MUSA to alloc • - wi Comprehensive Plan. City does have ows there is concern during this process. t the approval of the City Administrator Waite Smith stated the c ent ff made regarding denial of plats due to the 147 homes per year was made . he a ption that it is acceptable when the Comprehensive Plan and the impl . tatio - is put into place. Councilmember Carlson asked w Development Director Grochal have effective ordinances. Staff agreement with them. By and the ordinances supp from each City Board an everyone has a, mmending a task force. Community ity needs input from all the City Boards to on it, but then the Boards may not be in p w e from the Boards, compromises will be made ost`portant part of the task force is the buy -in il. Once the ordinances are approved and adopted City Administrato :`'` e Smith stated the City used a similar process for the Comprehensive P1. d it was not necessarily effective because there was not an agreement about the cess up front. Councilmember Reinert stated the City needs to determine what is needed and then decide if a moratorium is needed. If it is needed then it should be put in place for six months to get the ordinances done. Community Development Director Grochala stated he does not think this process needs to go a whole year. If there were no task force, the Boards would have less incentive to buy -in to the final result. CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 5, 2001 City Administrator Waite Smith stated this issue needs to be discussed further when there is more time. She stated the Council can finish the discussion at a special meeting after the Council meeting on Monday night. Councilmember Carlson stated another concern is that the Boards may not buy in if they cannot choose the members of the task force. Balance is needed if a task force is even necessary. DISCUSS APPOINTMENT PROCESS FOR BOARD MEMBERS, COUNCILMEMBER DAHL Councilmember Dahl asked why the Council is not interviewing asking for re -appointment. She indicated she did ask Director o Tesch for the fact sheets on each of the incumbents. City Administrator Waite Smith advised Director of Adm this issue with her. Mr. Tesch had indicated that he asked interviewing all the applicants and was told it was not interview everyone, more interviews can be set up incumbents can be distributed in the Friday packets nts that are ion Dan Councilmember Carlson stated she has stru interview everyone because she does not stated it is hard to compare applicants she also has concern that the process has Councilmember. esch did discuss cilmembers about the Council wants to week. The fact sheets on the is and has decided she wants to ngle person on the boards. She al "+`tl : m are not interviewed. She stated ged without speaking to every Mayor Bergeson stated incumbent ,vett always been interviewed in the past. Councilmember Reinert interview but the fact shee Councilmember vote. She stated s E m eves that not interviewing everyone is not fair to her or the candidates. ne on the list that he feels he needs to e helpful. s _ ants this issue put on a Council meeting agenda for a Councilmember O'Donnell noted that last year one of the incumbents was offended when asked to interview again and dropped out. He stated he does not feel the need to interview everyone, but he will if it makes the process run smoother. City Administrator Waite Smith advised she would send out the fact sheets in the Friday updates. She will also schedule more interviews next Wednesday at 7:00 p.m. after the regular Council work session. CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 5, 2001 UPDATE ON QUAD CITIES POLICE DISCUSSIONS, MAYOR BERGESON Mayor Bergeson advised informal meetings have been held regarding this issue with the City Administrators and Mayors. At the last meeting the discussion turned to the idea of hiring a consultant to facilitate the process. He indicated that at that point he was uneasy because he does not feel that just he and the City Administrator should decide whether the City will participate in a more formal process. Mayor Bergeson continued, indicating he and City Administrator Waite Smith respectfully declined the invitation to the next meeting. He stated they would not attend any more meetings until the Council and Police Department hav time to further discuss the issue. Councilmember Carlson stated she thinks it is a good idea to put it should be kept on hold until the City has its joint meetin and maybe r cities. PURCHASE OF SNOWMOBILE FOR POLICE DE ' t M T WITH FORFEITURE FUNDS, DAVE PECCHIA Chief Pecchia stated the Police Department woul forfeiture funds to purchase a snowmobile fo Department's snowmobile was totaled in an snowmobile from Forest Lake Motor Sp in the fund and it does not consist of Councilmember Reinert asked ho Chief Pecchia stated that if the limits the Department has to hav can enforce the rules and k nd some of its DWI obileenforcement. Last year the he Department will purchase a There is approximately $10,000 oblem snowmobiles are in the City. to maintain snowmobiling within the City bile. That is the only way the Department amily friendly. City Administrator Waite snowmobiles re l# to dam restricted. d most of the calls she receives are complaints about ails and using the snowmobiles in areas that are Councilmember C n suggested the Police Department work with the Snowmobile Association to help the enforcement. Councilmember O'Donnell stated he did work with the Snowmobile Association last year. The Snowmobile Association puts a lot of effort into letting everyone know where snowmobiles are permitted. This item will be appear on the consent agenda Monday, December 10, 2001, 6:30 p.m. 5 CITY COUNCIL WORK SESSION DECEMBER 5, 2001 REGULAR AGENDA, DECEMBER 10, 2001 There were no changes to the regular agenda. The meeting was adjourned at 6:55 p.m. These minutes were considered, corrected and approved at the regular Council meeting held on January 14, 2002. Ann Blai6City Clerk Transcribed by: Kim Points TimeSaver Off Site Secretarial, Inc.