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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MEETING, JANUARY 6, 1981 Mayor Eder called the meeting to order at 7:33 p.m. Councillors present: Fraser, Morgan, Mottaz, and Novak. City Administrator Larry Whittaker was also present. AGENDA: Whittaker requested the Council revise the Agenda to permit Olingers' to discuss their non -conforming use at 8 p.m., to add a request for Seminar Reimbursement under Civil Defense Director and to add Animal Pound Charges and Conference for Newly Elect Officials under his report. Novak moved, seconded by Morgan, to approve the Agenda as amended. Motion carried 5-0. MINUTES: Were not ready for Council approval. CLAIMS: Morgan moved, seconded by Fraser, to approve Claims 81007 thru 81052. Mottaz asked if it were now the City policy to pay for the installation of the Christmas Lights each year? Whittaker advised the Council that the previous City Council had authorized the installation in 1980, only. Mottaz suggested *Amended that the Council consider this policy at the January*28, City 1/21/81 Council meeting. Mottaz also asked if Claim 81041 should be ... at the held up until the Valley Branch Watershed District decides if January 20... they are going to reimburse the City for some of its flood control measures from the Emergency Fund before paying the claims on petition for 1.003 and 1004. Morgan moved, seconded by Fraser, to amend his motion on the Claims to exclude 81041 until the Emergency Fund and the pipe rental are straightened out. Motion carried 4-0-1. Eder abstained. Motion on claims carried 5-0. PUBLIC INQUIRIES: A. Lee Rossow - Pole Building on Highway 36 - Lee Rossow, his father, and his brother appeared to explain the situation with the building they are constructing on the proposed plat of Tri- Star Addition. Administrator Whittaker explained that the Rossows' had to get two variances in order to complete the building. One variance would be from the requirement of the Zoning Ordinance that the principal building being built before the accessory buildings are built and the other is a variance from the requirement that an.accessory building be no more than 2,000 sq.ft. The Rossowr':s building as under construction, is 3300 sq. ft. Lee Rossow said they would like to replat the property,,once the building under construction is complete, to provide for one lot of 29 to 30 acres and nine 1 1/2 acre lots, as provided in the clustering section for Rural Residential. He said that the family could then make better use of that building for agriculture in the future. Mayor Eder said that the Council should not discuss what they want in the future; but what they should do right now about the building under construction. He asked if the Rossows' owned a barn that they could store this equipment in temporarily. Lee Rossow answered yes. Mayor Eder asked if the building under construction would lend itself to agricultural uses? Mr. Rossow answered that no one wanted a building for residential purposes at that location; that the family had asked for a General Business zoning before the Comp Plan and Zoning Ordinance were finished; and the City Council had tabled it at that time.