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Item No. 46 <br /> Staff Report No. <br /> Meeting Date: 2/2/98 <br /> Type of Business: WK <br /> WK: Work Session;PH:Public Hearing; <br /> CA: Consent Agenda; CB:Council Business <br /> City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> To: Mayor and City Council Members <br /> From: Rick Jopke, Community Development Director <br /> Item Title/Subject: Comprehensive Plan Update Community Forums <br /> Date of Report: January 27, 1998 <br /> Background: <br /> As you are all aware, the City of Mounds View, along with other communities in the metro area, <br /> will be updating its comprehensive plan in 1998.To assist in this effort and to gain valuable <br /> citizen input up front, the Planning Commission will be conducting three community forums. <br /> The Planning Commission hopes these forums will help Mounds View citizens understand what <br /> the comprehensive plan is and most importantly to give citizens a chance to talk about what <br /> Mounds View should be like in the future. The first forum will be held at 7 PM on Wed. <br /> February 11, 1998 in the cafeteria at Pinewood Elementary School for people who live north of <br /> the Highway 10 corridor. The second forum will be for the Highway 10 corridor and will be held <br /> at 7 PM on Wed. March 11, 1998 in the Edgewood Jr. High School cafeteria. The third forum <br /> will for those people living south of the Highway 10 corridor and will be held in the cafeteria of <br /> Edgewood Jr. High School at 7 PM. A notice of these meetings will be mailed to each resident <br /> and business in the community. <br /> At these forums staff will give background information about the community, explain what the <br /> comprehensive plan is and explain the process which is being used to update it. The rest of the <br /> meeting will be spent in small groups identifying and talking about both the positive and <br /> negative issues in the community. A planning commission member will be assigned to each <br /> group to facilitate the discussion and write down what they hear. At the end of the meeting each <br /> commissioner will summarize the discussion that occurred in their group. The input received will <br /> be compiled into a summary document and each participant will receive a copy. <br /> City Council members are welcome to attend and participate in these forums. If more than 2 <br /> council members plan to attend any given forum,the open meeting law requirements would <br /> pertain. Copies of the summary document will be provided to council members. <br /> Rick Jopke,Co unity Development Director <br /> N:\DATA\USERS\RICKJO\SI-TARE\020298.RPT <br />