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City Council Workshop Minutes Present: Mayor Pearson, Council Members Smith, Park, Bloyer, and Member-Elect Nelson Also Present: City Admin Zuleger, Director of Planning Klatt, City Planner Johnson, City Clerk Bell, Nadine Obermeuller planning, Julie Fliflet OVWG, Steve DeLapp OVWG, Todd Williams Planning, Kathy haggard Planning, Rolf Larson Planning, harry mehlander Meeting was brought to order at 5:46 P.M. Park moved to approve agenda smith 2nd passed 4-0 Julie Fliflet presented overview of old village land use map on behalf of the OVWG Land use plan are intended to be flexible. Plan is not final workgroup plan. OVWG invites input. Anne Smith gave overview of the discussions held with MetCouncil regarding densities. The point was that the average densities had to be met, but the city was able to meet those as it saw best. Mayor Pearson identified that Harry Melander had arrived and that the work group would continue following Dean introduced harry. All attendees were introduced. Harry gave overview of his background. Harry opened it up for questions. Mayor pearson explained that the city would like to have a downgrading of the target growth goals. Dean asked what the likelihood was that the council would provide relief in the targets based on the good faith efforts by the city and the lack of metro growth. Harry said while he cannot speak for the metc, it could be possible and that each situation would be examined independently. Smith expressed her positive feelings toward the progress since 2005. Smith wants Le’s Rep to be positive. Harry affirmed that MEtc’s staff is positive Harry commented that the issue of mass transit was expanding. Mayor pearson asked how the impact of the western suburbs play into that. A discussion was had about the uniqueness of east side. Both sides only have so much expansion discussed the impact of western Wisconsin has on the area. Growth is a factor for the future, but currently limited to 7 county metro.