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Nadine like lions park and fire stn staying put. Wants city hall moved there in 20 years. Is concerned <br />about the government selecting winners and losers when acquiring property. <br />Todd believes 2.5 acres for green is plenty. <br />John Schiltz is disappointed in how long it has taken to progress. There is more leaving than coming in. <br />backwards in business. Pays large amount of taxes for little services. Wants city to consider main street <br />more. Questions impact of focusing on other parts of village. people who have to survive in lake elmo <br />are never asked. Only residents who oppose growth and change are asked what they want. <br />Smith explained that the economy played a large role in the delay, not effort by the council and <br />Bloyer and pearson want lake elmo ave to be focus. <br />Kathy said that the recent resident input struggled to identify what is the “downtown”. <br /> Take aways: <br />1) Get brown area out <br />2) Push central core <br />3) Articulate better with developers our mission of open space <br />Wally reemphasized that plan needs to be market driven and that city must focus on LE ave. should not <br />force the park land by the railroad tracks. <br />Steve limitations of le ave. pkg, distance <br />Dean asked if anyone has any issues with the proposed map and densities <br />Kathy asked if there is too much mixed use. <br />Nick explained PUD planned use development. Growing trend in metro area. The reason is that the base <br />zoning does not allow specific uses and PUD is a tool to overcome those limitations. <br />Wally asked about the high density zone. Was explained that we did not want to downzone previously <br />zoned property. <br />Ovwg tried to keep the green location near to LE ave with as little impact on existing properties. <br />Group consensus was that the distribution of density was acceptable. <br />Group consensus was that the designation of land use zoning was acceptable. <br />The park land designation was discussed for a baseball complex . staff recommended keeping the <br />designation. The buffer area should also be kept, but staff expects to average the areas instead of <br />requiring linear straight lines. <br />