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City Council meeting of 8/1/88 Page 4 question is the corporate limits of the city. Copies of this rezoning request have been forwarded to Grant Township for their review. The city's comprehensive plan allows for a minimum lot size outside of the urban service area of five gross acres. The proposal in question would appear to be consistent with the city's comprehensive plan, and with the development within the RR -2 areas to the west and north of the site in question. The Planning Commission held a public hearing on this matter July 27, 1988. Mr. Mike Ball appeared at the hearing, and raised some questions in regard to how the property would be subdivided once rezoned. There were no objections raised to the rezoning of the property as requested. The Planning Commission discussed this matter in depth, and indicated that the proposal appears to be consistent with the city's comprehensive plan and other development in the that area. The Planning Commission unanimously recommended approval of the rezoning in question. Atkinson made motion, Vail seconded, to adopt ORDINANCE 88-250, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 320 OF THE HUGO CITY CODE ENTITLED "ZONING" BY AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION OF THE DESCRIBED REAL PROPERTY. VOTING AYE: Olson, Potts, Vail, Atkinson VOTING NAY: Peltier Motion Carried. AMEND PLANNING COMMISSION BY-LAWS Chapter 240 of the municipal code provides for the creation of the Planning Commission and allows for creation of the operating policy of the Commission. The current operating policy (Article 6, Section 2) requires that to have a quorum four members of the Commission must be present, and the number of votes necessary to transact business shall be three. On two occasions in the last 12 months, the city has failed to produce a quorum at the Planning Commission meeting although there was an -adequate number of members present to transact business. In both of those cases the Planning Commission had to adjourn to another date creating great inconvenience for Hugo residents, city staff, and those Planning Commissioners who were in attendance at these adjourned meetings. The city was nearly faced with a similar situation at their July 27th meeting, but was able to get a fourth member to attend 1/2 hour before the meeting was called to order. The question raised at an earlier meeting is why the Planning Commission meeting had to be adjourned to another date when there were enough members present to transact business. As a result of these incidents, the city attorney was contacted regarding how to resolve this matter. The city attorney has recommended that the city reduce the number required to constitute a quorum of the Planning Commission to three members, and the city could avoid this type of problem in the future. The staff is recommending that Article 6, Section 2, of the Planning Commission's operating procedures be amended to read as follows: "A quorum shall consist of three (3) members. Number of votes necessary to transact business shall be three (3)."