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AGENDA
LAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISSION
June 9, 1986
7:30 p.m. Meeting Convenes
1. Agenda
2. Minutes: May 27, 1986
3. Comprehensive Plan Update
(a) Comment letter from R. Thomas Armstrong
on neighborhood convenience centers
in residential areas.
(b) Proposed change in Table of Contents format
(c) 1990 Future Land Use Plan and Map
(d) Select review items for 6-23-86 meeting
4. Other
5. Adjourn
LAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISSION MINUTES
MAY 27, 1986
Chairman Graves called the meeting to order at 7:
City Council Chambers. Present: Novak, Reuther,
Williams, Raleigh, Moe (arrived 8:15 p.m.), City
Overby and City Attorney Knaak. Absent: Prince,
Martens.
1. Agenda
35 p.m. in the
Haacke, Bucheck,
Administrator
Schiltz and
M/S/P Raleigh/Graves - to approve the agenda as presented.
(Motion carried 7-0).
2. a. Minutes: April 28, 1986
M/S/P Novak/Martens - to approve the April 28, 1986 Planning
Commission minutes as amended. (Motion carried 7-0).
b. Minutes: May
12, 1986
M/S/P Novak/Raleigh - to approve the May 12, 1986 Planning
Commission minutes as presented. (Motion carried 7-0).
3. Charitable Gambling Ordinance
City Attorney Knaak handed out the Oakdale Gambling Ordinance and
the State Gambling Regulations. Discussion followed on the
proposed Charitable Gambling Ordinance.
Williams - I would suggest a percentage to stay within the
community as Afton did. This would cover possible added police
protection or traffic problems that might arise. Terry Needham,
Lake Elmo Jaycees, stated that it wouldn't generate that amount of
customers to warrant additional police protection and he does not
want any limits on the Jaycee's money.
Raleigh - Does a temporary liquor license define a property or
location. Knaak answered it can and should. Raleigh further
added if we are going with this ordinance as written, one change
that should be included is to limit the area. This could be tied
to year-round liquor licenses.
Bucheck - I would like to see organizations that request a
gambling license have at least 50 percent of the citizens in Lake
Lake Elmo. Mr. Steinbeck, Lake Elmo VFW, stated that out of their
200 paid -up members only 50 are from Lake Elmo. Also, if Oakdale
is only allowing pulltabs, why are we allowing all the permitted
gambling devices.
City Attorney Knaak explained that the statute states that an
organization may conduct lawful gambling if it has been in
existence for at least three years and has at least 15 active
LAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISION MINUTES MAY 27, 1986 PAGE 2
members and has a license to conduct lawful gambling from the
Board and complies with this chapter. This was written to prevent
the rise of "fly-by-night" groups.
After extensive discussion a motion was made and the following
amendments to the motion were stated below:
M/No Second/F -Raleigh/ - to amend the motion to include the.
examination of enforcement of the ordinance and inspections by a
uniformed police officer,
After some discussion it was found that this would be difficult to
enforce, but it could be built into the limitations of where the
gambling can take place.
Bucheck - I would like to amend the motion to eliminate
paddlewheels because they are not used now so why open it to other
gambling devices. I feel three permitted gambling devices are
adequate. If this ordinance runs without problems, we can add
another one.
M/S/P Novak/Bucheck - to amend the motion to include prohibiting
the sale of gambling devices to minors, an accounting to the City,
and to eliminate paddlewheels (Motion carried 5-3<Haacke, Graves,
Moe›). Moe, Graves and Haacke stated that four gambling devices
are permitted so why eliminate only one gambling device.
M/S/P Moe/Haacke - to recommend to the City Council the following
amendments to the Lake Elmo charitable Gambling Ordinance.
(Motion carried 8-0).
1. Limit charitable gambling to permanent, year-round
licensed liquor establishments and to fraternal
organizations or churches.
2. Gambling would be restricted to operating inside
the building premises (not in the parking lot, etc.)
3. Gambling operations with temporary liquor license
holders would not be allowed.
4. At least 20% of the profits from the charitable
gambling operations must be spent in the Lake
Elmo Community (to be verified by City review
of the organization's account books when they
apply for their license).
5. Charitable gambling activities would be limited
to pulltabs, tipboards and raffles. Paddlewheels
would not be allowed.
6. To prohibit the sale of gambling devices to minors.
M/S/P Novak/Bucheck - to recommend to the City Council that the
ordinance and its official publication be rescinded until it can
LAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISION MINUTES MAY 27, 1986 PAGE 3
be fully considered by the Commission and the
that this issue is significant enough that it
hearing at the Council level. (Motion carried
already been through the Council and why take
already allows>).
4. Comprehensive
a. 1979 Goal
Page 92
TRANSPORTATION
Policies
Plan Update
and Policy Statements
Delete
City Council; and
warrants a public
7-1<Moe: It has
away what the state
Add
Bucheck suggested that we list the restriction of discouraging
private roads. Novak questioned the enforcement of this. Graves
added that we have been doing this in all subdivision plat plans.
The following statement was approved by the consensus of the
commission.
Restrict the development of private roads unless they meet the
City engineering requirements.
Commission member Raleigh wanted to see a goal or policy statement
restricting outdoor advertising in certain areas and didn't know
if it should be put in the Environmental or Commercial Section.
The consensus of the commission was to add the following statement
under the Environmental Section.
Restrict outdoor advertising signs to commercial zoned area
PUBLIC UTILITIES
To 4ate-, -en1y a ama3.1_po ior1 of —Late -Frlme is- prov'ided-with-c-ity
san4-terry-sewer s-ex iee: - At the present -time, -sewer- 1ternattves
are-being-studiedor-the-ol& vil±age-area and easterrparts--of
frhe-oWf. Lake Elmo has expressed a great deal of concern over
any attempts to provide central sewer service to the rural
portions of the city which could bring about premature urban
development. The City has adopted the 201 Plan to address any
current sewage problems in Lake Elmo.
Goals
Prevfe±orr-e To provide public utilities in a manner that
reinforces the c-i-tyas-staged--growth-and-redevelopment policies.
Williams suggested starting the goal statement with "to provide"
and make it more general.
.19.90- 2000 FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND MAP
LAKE ELMO PLANNING COMMISION MINUTES MAY 27, 1986 PAGE 4
The following land use categories reflect the intentions and
purposes outlined in the goals and policies. These categories
delineate the nature of, and location where alternative land uses
will be permitted, and indicate the relative density or intensity
of land uses proposed for different areas. Although the
categories describe a complete range of development alternatives,
they are still general in nature to the extent that they do not
contain specific standards controlling land use. Their purpose is
to guide rather than regulate. This plan as developed, has a time
horizon of i99.0• 2000 . Lake Elmo fully realizes that unforeseen
changes in the trends and assumptions upon which they plan is
based may occur during the next ten years. Therefore, a regular
review of the plan will be made, with a comprehensive update and
evaluation scheduled for 10 5- 1990 .
Novak - It is clear that the Metropolitan Framework is addressing
through the year 2000 and we are reacting to that document. He
recommended changing 1990 to the year 2000.
General Rural Use
Novak - This requires some major restructuring and would be
willing to sort out the differences between General Rural Use and
Agricultural and present this to the commission at the next
meeting. This was approved by the consensus of the commission.
Councilman Mazzara asked how does the City as far as a policy
statement encourage Agricultural use. Graves felt there has been
applications brought in for development of a rural residential
area and the interpretation of what it is permitted there has been
foggy. The intent here is to clarify the intention of the
comprehensive zoning of the area. Novak added that the Commission
will be adopting alternative agricultural uses to encourage
farmers to keep their land Ag. Raleigh explained that it is a
combination of things such as zoning, future land use and
alternative land uses to encourage agricultural land to stay Ag.
Moe added that we are giving them a set of option available to the
landowner such as tree farms or strawberry fields.
City Administrator Overby stated that he is willing to rewrite any
of these sections based on the discussion that the Commission have
at the meeting. Graves asked if Bob and Dan would get together
and work on this. Dan indicated he preferred to draft it and will
consult with Bob.
Sections Residential and Urban Residential will be rewritten and
discussed at the next Planning Commission meeting. Raleigh
suggested that a statement regarding the 201 Plan should be added.
City Administrator Overby and Commissionmember Novak clarified
that the Future Land Use map can reflect potential zoning but it
does not reflect current zoning.
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5. Mr. R. Thomas Armstrong asked if he could comment at the next
meeting on possible neighborhood and convenience centers in
Residential Areas. This will be put on the June 9th agenda.
6. Resignation
Commissionmember Novak stated that he is resigning his position as
Planning Commission Secretary for the following reason: as
Secretary he is required to sign off the final plat of the Lake
Elmo Heights Subdivision. This is a cluster development with
seven of eleven homes on a cul-de-sac exiting on Stillwater
Boulevard at a point he believes is a dangerous blind
intersection. It is his understanding that there has been
numerous accidents in that area. He added that he feels strongly
enough about this that he would be compromising the safety of the
prospective homeowners on the cul-de-sac by signing this final
plat.
M/S/P Moe/Haacke - to appoint Don Moe (as he volunteered his
services) as Secretary to the Planning Commission. (Motion
carried 8-0).
M/S/P Moe/Graves - to adjourn the Planning Commission meeting at
10:42 p.m. (Motion carried 8-0).