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APRIL 2001 1111 YOUR CITY 'RE-P 0. R HUGO CITY HALL, 5524 UPPER 146TH STREET NORTH HUGO, MN 55038 651-429-6676 HUGO TO BEGIN HELP PLAN COMMUNITY THE FUTURE VISIONING PROCESS OF HUGO The City of Hugo has selected the Minneapolis architecture, engineering, and planning firm of Hammel, Green, and Abrahamson, Inc. (HGA) to manage a Here is your chance to be community visioning process for the City that will take place over the next three involved in determining the. months. The term "Charrette" is being used to describe the process. Michael future development in Hugo. Lamb, a senior planner with HGA who will be in charge of the process, explains Share your vision for Hugo by that a Charrette planning process has two major aspects: it is a highly public, par- ticipatory process and it occurs within a fairly compressed or short time frame. attending these community "We're going to have a number of community workshops and topical round table workshops: discussions," Lamb explains, "and use that community involvement and participa- tion as a basis for making some recommendations to the City Council." Wednesday, April 4 6:30-9:00 p.m. Hugo has obtained a$60,000 grant from the Metropolitan Council to conduct the Charrette process. The end result will be a guide for development in Hugo over the next 20 years. Planning Commission Chair Dave Schumann describes it as a Tuesday, April 10 "fine-tuning" of the comprehensive plan adopted in 1998. "The basic division of 6:30-9:00 p.m. agricultural and rural residential areas in the eastern part of the City and urban res- idential, commercial, and industrial areas in the west will not change," Schumann Location for both dates: explains. ! Hugo Elementary School � City Council Member Frank Puleo states that the primary purpose is"to determine 14895 Francesca Ave. N. F what is the best use of the land and what types of development we want." Lamb F adds, "What we're going to do is through public opinion,public participation, and Your participation is crucial our expertise, look at the next level of detail—how specific areas actually begin to to the success of this process! develop physically, what kinds of new residential units might be developed, how Any questions? Contact thei" are they connecting, what are the public open spaces and parks that need to be MW Hugo City Hall a added, how is the whole thing connected with the transportation system, how do -544101 � . the utilities fit into that. And then how will all of that fit into the existing envi- (651) 429-6676 ext. 2 ronment. VISIONING Continued on Page 2