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-4- plan for the City and the second to look at the existing ordinances pertaining to planning issues to see if some of the outdated concepts and language could be rewritten. Mr. Soth advised it would be much easier to recodify some of the Commission suggestions than rewriting the whole City Ordinance. He said he has been attempting to recodify the ordinances as they come up. He then alerted the Council to the fact that somehow during the hectic last hours of the legislative sessions some stringent restrictions on granting variances and conditional uses , which he perceives could impose heavy administrative expenses on municipalities, were slipped through. He suggested it might be advisable to have the League of Cities and A.M.M. study the legislation for possible repeal . Council- man Ranallo will bring the matter up with the League and the Mayor agreed to bring it to the attention of the A.M.M. Board of Directors at their next meeting. The following was passed as an indication of the Council's support of repeal of the legislation. Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to request the Association of Metropolitan Municipalities and the League of Minnesota Municipalities to work towards the repeal of the new legislation which would set stringent restrictions on granting variances and conditional use permits . Motion carried unanimously . Because the date selected by Hennepin County for the Board of Review • is not a Council date , Mr. Hamer was instructed to try to reschedule that hearing for May 10 , 1983 . In reference to the proposed agreement with the Salvation Army Camp , whereby a feasibility study for the requested drainage of a problem• area on the Salvation Army grounds would be made as discussed in the agent?a packet , Mr. Hamer suggested an arrangement might be made with the engineers to dela., the presentation of their charges for the study until after the study had been presented to the other government bodies %:,ho would be invol%-od in the drainac,e . The Public Works Director confirmed that St. AS:thony has no runoff and that most is from New Brighton and the Salvation Army would have to bear all the costs for the study if the two counties and three cities who are involved failed to join in the joint powers agreement. ~ . Motion by Councilman Marks and seconded by Councilman Enrooth to adopt the resolution which would authorize the Mayor and City Manager '' .._ to enter into an agreement with the Salvation Army for a feasibility cost study for correcting a drainage problem on Salvation Army property. RESOLUTION 83-017 A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF ST. ANTHONY AND THE SALVATION ARMY FOR FEASIBILITY STUDY COSTS Motion carried unanimous Iv .