HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-11-75 PZMAGENDA---PLANNING-ZONING COMMISSION
CITY OF LAKE ELMO, .MINN. 55042
MEETING TO BE HELD ON TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1975.
7:30 P.M. -- Discuss draft of City Policies and
Standards -- prepared by Midwest Planning.
6:00 P.M. -- Eldon Loescher--3141 Oakgreen, Stillwater
(439-5697)
Building of 4-plex at 34th. St. No.
ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION:
CITY OF LAKE ELMO
PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
MINUTES OF THE MEETING OF MARCH 11, 1975
Meeting called to order at 7:35 P.M. by Chairperson Johnson
PRESENT: Johnson, Williams, Dreher, Froehner, Grace, Lundquist, Novak
Sovereign (8:05) and Armstrong.
MINUTES MOTION by Lundquist to approve the minutes of the February 24th
Meeting
SECOND by Grace
VOTE: All in favor (Sovereign not present)
LOESCHER Eldon Loescher owns a lot on 34th Street, Lot 4, Auditor's
Plat 8. It has 150 foot frontage and is 100 feet deep. He wants
to build a four-plex and occupy one of the apartments. GI Loan.
Loescher stated that he owns the four-plex next door and that
it has never had sewer problems. He proposed two tanks and a
drainfield in the new building. The area is zoned GB and his
use was not one of those listed in the zoning act as permitted.
This will require rezoning. No action was taken since the
surrounding property owners had not been notified. Loescher
will apply for an appointment with the Council.
FOLZ Bruce Folz presented a proposed residential plat in the Lake Jane
NORTH -SOUTH area. The developer would like to do some grading and plant trees
ROAD but cannot do so until the alignment of the main collector road
north -south has been determined. He urged that work be done by
the PZC and Council to firmly establish this route.
FOLZ An area is being platted residential west of Downs Lake and there
DOWNS LAKE is a problem with drainage from Downs Lake. The natural flow
would be south to Horseshoe Lake through Tartan Park. 3M has
built an embankment so this flow will not occur across their
golf course. Folz stated that he will give an easement to the
Valley Branch Water Shed District for a pipe from Downs Lake
to Lake Elmo. Lake Elmo is lower than Downs, but the topocgraphy
prevents flowage in this direction. Folz will be going to the
VBWSD meeting on Thursday the 13th of March to present his
proposal. He stated that the Council must go along with the plan
if it is to be approved. The Council has one month to figure
out its policy.
MOTION by Williams
Discussion should be tabled the VBWSD has given its opinion.
Request that the Council direct the City Engineer to meet and
confer with VBWSD concerning the plans to divert the drainage
from Downs Lake across the Emerson Property into Lake Elmo.
SECOND by Armstrong
VOTE: Motion carried all in favor.
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MINUTES OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION MARCH 11, 1975
DERRICK The Derrick Company is running an appraisal of the park's
impact on the surrounding Crombie property which the Company
now owns. There is no problem to the south of the park, but
Derrick wants the 20 acres immediately to the north zoned
residential for 1-2 acre plots. If it can't develop it in
this manner, it will consider this an item of damages on the
appraisal for the park. The land is now zoned A and must
have five acre lots. No representative of the Company was
present.
DAVE LICHT Mr. Licht and Barbara Gilbertson were present to discuss the
March 3rd letter and the Comprehensive Plan Policies attached
thereto. The entire discussion took several hours and numerous
changes in the wording of the policies were made and noted
by Licht. He will be incorporating these changes in a new
set of goalsand policies. Some of the major items discussed
were: The definition of Urban and rural. Several members of the
PZC indicated that 40 acres for rural was too much and it
should be reduced to 5 acres. The problem of sewers was stated
to be not "if" but "when" and "where". Licht feels that once
the sewers come in an area it may be next to impossible to
hold land areas like five acres. The assessment estimate in
Dellwood was $23,000.00 an acre. Dellwood fought the sewer by
imposing strict standards on individual units, yearly pumping
or holding tanks. The feeling of some members of the PZC was
that the rural atmosphere of Lake Elmo would be destroyed by
the sewer in open areas. The property owners would have to
sell or subdivide in order to pay for the sewer.
Williams asked that Licht put into writing his idea that spot
zoning is good.
JOHNSON Jerry Bell, the Metro planner for this area talked to Novak about
the Comprehensive Plan. He will be at our meeting on Monday
March 24th.
ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 12:03 A.M. on March 12th.
THE NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING IS MONDAY MARCH 24th at 7:30 P.M.
Respectfully submitted,
/'jl Li or
Thomas G. Armstrong
Secretary