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MEMORANDUM • DATE: September 17, 1997 TO: Michael J. Morrison, City Manager FROM: Kim Moore-Sykes, Management Assistant ITEM: Summary of 9/16 Planning Commission Meeting. 1. Doug Bergstrom will be the Planning Commission representative to the Sept. 23rd City Council meeting. 2. Public Hearing — 97-10 Bernard Preussner, 3209 Skycroft Drive, Request for Variance' to Fence Size. Mr. Preussner appeared before the Planning Commission to request a 10-foot variance to the City Ordinance limiting a fence in an R-1 District to 8 feet. The Planning Commission voted to recommend denial of his request. No one in the audience spoke in favor or against Mr. Preussner's request. 3. Comprehensive Plan Update Process. I reported that the Comp. Plan was almost completed; that I was finishing the proposed Capital Improvement Program for Suzanne Rhees. Bergstrom asked that it be submitted to the Planning Commission for approval before it is sent out. I told him that I didn't think that the Planning Commission needed to act on it as it was only proposed and that it isn't required to have an approved CIP; he stated that the Minnesota Statutes gives the Planning Commission the authority to approve the CIP. 4. Proposed Amendment to the Zoning Ordinance Establishing Regulations for Churches, Temples and Synagogues. I presented a Staff Report regarding the proposed amendment that would establish regulations that would govern permitted and permitted conditional uses that are not residential. This issue came about because of the City Attorney's opinion that granting variances to the R-1 parking and lot coverage regulations would create a dangerous precedent and would not be defendable if challenged in court. So I contacted several cities and the League regarding ordinances they had on this issue and the,proposed amendment was the result. The Planning Commission suggested a few revisions and asked that it be put back on the agenda for October. They declined to.recommend it to the City Council at this time because Bergstrom had been on vacation and had not had an opportunity to review it fully and the others were not comfortable passing it along to the Council without reviewing the revised copy. Bill Soth was not available to comment on the proposed amendment until this morning. He indicated that it looked good to him and felt it covered all the issues • he had. 5. Chris Makowski agreed to be the Planning Commission representative to the Storm Water Advisory Task Force.