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MINUTES HUGO PLANNING COMMISSION March 22, 2012 Call to Order Chairman Gwynn called the meeting to order at 7:02pm. PRESENT: Arcand, Gwynn, Kleissler, Knauss, McRoberts, Rosenquist ABSENT: Moore ALSO PRESENT: Rachel Juba, Planner Anna Wobse, Accounting Clerk Approval of Minutes Chairman Gwynn added to the January 12, 2012 minutes the Oath of Office taken by Knauss. McRoberts made motion, Kleissler seconded, to approve the Planning Commission minutes of January 12, 2012, with revisions. McRoberts made motion, Kleissler seconded, to approve the Planning Commission Goal Setting Workshop minutes of January 12, 2012. All Ayes, motion carried. Site Plan — Xcel Energy City Planner, Rachel Juba, presented to the Planning Commission the site plan for the Xcel Energy Training Center located at 13620 Fenway Boulevard North. The site plan includes a 20,000 square foot indoor training center with six outdoor natural gas leak stations and an outdoor electrical training area consisting of gravel roads, thirty electrical poles and surface/underground connection stations. Juba informed the Commission that the site plan meets all of the ordinance standards for building setbacks, building height, building coverage versus lot coverage, landscaping, lighting, fencing, screening, street access, parking, trails, architecture, signage, drainage, grading, utilities and wetlands. Juba also informed the Commission that the applicant is showing future phases on the site plan, but each of those future additions would require the applicant to formally apply for site plan approval. Staff recommended that the Commission approve the site plan as presented. Two representatives from the architectural firm RSP were in the audience to represent Xcel Energy. Chairman Gwynn welcomed them to come forward. Mike Kisch thanked the Commission and informed them that it is their intention to fully complete everything proposed on the site plan.