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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES JANUARY 17, 1989 PAGE 4 is important that an individual community and the people within that community are able to set the tone for the development or lifestyle (land utilization) within their own boundaries without having to worry about getting into land use, competitive bidding wars, with adjacent communities. The community should control their own destiny. Graves added you have to balance against the perogati.ve and desires of the individual propertyowners within that area to be able to make what they consider a proper use of the land. Graves suggested a list of criteria be set in this type of legislation where a series of reasonable steps can be taken by both parties to work together and very clearly demonstrate that a City has not shown a willingness over a period of years in certain type of activities, to make decisions to deem a reasonable use of the property. Then an opinion should be available to those landowners to ask for joint detachment/annexation with adjoining communities with the Municipal Board. The process would be more rigorous than what was experienced, previously, with Section 32. In terms of what you want to do in the future to protect the City, Knaak advised the Council, you would want to try to get the repealer through. This Subdivision was a small, seemingly inocuious little thing, that got slipped through by the Municipal Board. There was not wide -spread understanding of its possible use as a tool. Laidig asked for a resolution from the Council which would allow them to get involved in setting hearing dates. A resolution was not offered by the Council, but Councilman Williams anticipated offering a resolution at the next meeting. Laidig will report back to the Council with his findings. 7. PLANNING/LAND USE/ZONING: A. PUBLIC HEARING: Variances to lot size, distance between signs, and hours an advertising sign can be illuminated. (Ad Venture Media, Inc., J. Olson) Mayor Dunn opened up the public hearing at 8:45 p.m. in the City Council chambers. Jamie Olson, part owner of the one -acre strip of land and on behalf of Adventure Media, Inc., has applied for a conditional use permit to permit a 10' x 20' advertising sign to be placed on a parcel of land in Section 36 along I-94 in the General Business Zoning District. This advertising sign would require three variances: (1) lot size; (2) distance between signs; (3) hours advertising sign can be illuminated. Former Councilmember Rosemary Armstrong stated the Vali Hi Drive In has been there a long time with a sign. She advised the Council that Jamie Olson was given a final settlement of $34,715 in 1984 for the property acquired by Mn/DOT for the completion of I-94. (Ms. Olson originally had 1.31 acres; Mn/DOT acquired .31 acres, about a 30 foot strip of land along the corridor). The City of Lake Elmo did not take