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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES APRIL 11, 1992 2 Councilman Hunt: I would like to have our attorney come back and tell us if Councilman Mottaz's idea is viable or if we should proceed with the full scale. I am in favor of turning it over to the staff. The Council has done a good job of trying to be responsive. We want to see this cleaned up by the end of the year or action has to be started. Mayor Johnson: I like the idea of a citation by our Building Inspector for a certain category of items, give a date that it will be accomplished. If not accomplished, then turn it over as a citation violation to the prosecuting attorney. We can say here, without any reservation, we will back Jim up on this. M/S/P Hunt/Mottaz - to direct Attorney Filla to prepare an opinion using whatever sources he feels necessary to develop that opinion as to whether or not the City can break this clean-up project down into citeable stages, and issue citations if those stages are not met or if the City should continue with the entire -clean-up as a whole. This opinion should be presented at the next regular council meeting. (Motion carried 5-0). 2. Mayor Johnson's and Councilman Mottaz's Letter to the Met Council Councilman Hunt: We have a petition before the Met Council for an extension of the MUSA. Unfortunately your letter tends to cast a doubt on the Met Council's review on that extension. It says that "oh by the way, what you used to review the extension against was not right. There's a whole bunch of other stuff you had to look at." Anything that comes out that causes the Met Council to geL<�pisse ,off at us or to think that maybe we didn't consider everything is only going to hurt this issue. This is my concern. I wanted to hear the other council members opinions. I think at this 11th hour we want to get this thing through. From talking to Mary, her opinion is the Council really should have had a unified front to take to the Met Council. This was her reading and apparently Mike Black's reading. We do not have that unified front and we're going to look petty silly on Monday, I'm afraid. Mayor Johnson: As far as the comp plan whether the stated policy of the Met Council is correct you must by specification add, change or delete items, I think that was stated correctly in the letter. I don't think that goes for the MUSA Extension issue. I don't think that should play any part in it and don't think it would play any part in it. Let me say, that I wasn't happy to have to see that letter written. The way this thing came about is we had a call from our City Administrator to Mr. Thompson and in essence a request to send a letter to our City to her clarifying her