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and City Attorney will meet with the representatives from the Veterinary Hospital Association and Dr. Swanson and report back to the Council at the February 17th meeting. M/S/P Hunt/John — to direct the staff to prepare an ordinance calling a public hearing for a development moratorium for an area North of the railroad, South of Highway 5 and bordered by Ideal Avenue on the West, Stillwater Blvd on the East in order for the Council to establish new zoning regulations to include architectural standards (review lot sizes, access, soils, steep topography) and recommend a time frame. (Motion passed 4-0). C. I-94 Study — Update on Met Council City Planner Terwedo would like to have an I-94 Task Force meeting to go over the three land use alternatives. She would like to change the 2015 development area to 2020 to reflect the Met Council's Blueprint so staff can prepare a land use plan. A workshop will be scheduled for March and the City Council will be invited. Administrator Kueffner reminded the Council that there could be a fourth option for the City to consider along I-94. That option is to limit MUSA expansion to 400 acres, a plan that was submitted to Met Council several years ago, but rejected for lack of capacity. The City resubmitted an application to the Met Council to extend MUSA to the United Properties site. This was done using sewer capacity that was transferred from the West half of Section 33, permanent redesignation of capacity which was assigned to Section 32, and a loan of excess capacity from the City of Oakdale. Mayor John will be meeting with the Met Council on Thursday, February 5, to recap what has happened, go over the City's application for 440 Acre MUSA expansion because of some good uses coming to the City under Business Park Zoning and wants the City to be ready. Kueffner further stated that the meeting is intended to clarify with the Met Council what has to be done on down stream improvements. This information will be brought back to the City Council at the March P meeting. The Administrator asked if the Council supports the meeting with the Met Council to see if those options are still available. Administrator Kueffner referred to the statement made by Mr. Rapp, Met Council, when he said that Lake Elmo, West Lakeland, Baytown all have a strong desire to remain rural in character for its residential uses. He suggested Lake Elmo get together with the urbanizing Communities and that we collectively can approach the Met Council and say Woodbury, Oakdale, Stillwater, and recently annexed 1500 acres all want urban development. The overall ratio of all our communities is 3:1, therefore, we meet our region goals. Administrator Kueffner suggested that Lake Elmo initiate the meeting. M/S/P Hunt/DeLapp — to direct the staff, based on their understanding of the situation and the timing, to get a meeting of the communities in the general area that would be interested in coming up with a Plan to meet Met Council goals for the region. (Motion passed 4-0). D. Wireless Telecommunication Permit —Review final draft and adopt summary and request for services Attorney Filla has made the changes directed by the Council on January 21,1998 to the Wireless Telecommunications Permit Ordinance. The Council asked that the staff review the Ordinance presented with the action taken on January 21" because all the changes were not made. Councilor DeLapp suggested and the Council accepted the following wording for "Ground Mounted Equipment". 1390.17 Ground Mounted Equipment All ground mounted equipment accessory to a Wireless Telecommunication Tower shall be enclosed in a building with brick walls and have a dark colored standing seam metal roof and be further screened with sufficient trees, as determined by the City Planner, and shrubs to substantially reduce the visual impact. A summary of Ordinance 9724 was provided, which is all that is required to be published in the paper. LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES FEBRUARY 3, 1998