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HUGO PLANNING COMMISSION
March 13, 2014
Call to Order
Chairman Gwynn called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm.
PRESENT: Arcand, Gwynn, Kleissler, McRoberts, & Rosenquist
ABSENT: Lessard & Knauss
ALSO PRESENT: Rachel Juba, Planner
Bob Barth, WSB & Associates
Approval of Minutes
Gwynn made motion, Arcand seconded, to approve the Planning Commission minutes of
February 13, 2014.
All Ayes, motion carried.
Stormwater Management Plan — Goals and Policies
Planner Rachel Juba talked about the process in developing the stormwater management plan.
The existing Stormwater Management Plan was adopted in 1998. Stormwater management
plans are required to be updated every ten years with the Comprehensive Plan and must be
consistent with Watershed District Rules. The Rice Creek Watershed District was in the process
of revising the rules when the 2030 Comprehensive Plan was approved in 2010. The
Metropolitan Council approved the Plan with the condition that the Stormwater Management
Plan be completed once the rules were revised. The RCWD competed their revisions to the rules
last summer, and the City is now updating the Plan.
Bob Barth, WSB and Associates, presented the goals and policies to reduce, reuse, and replenish
the City's water resources and the need the need to do this on a regional basis. He talked about
the Oneka Ridge Golf Course water reuse project and what it meant for development.
Staff recommended the Planning Commission review the goals and policies and provide
comments to the City Council.
The Planning Commission reviewed the goals and polies of the Stormwater Management Plan.
They agreed the goals and policies will guide the plan in a good direction and will help the City
achieve its water conservation goals.
Planning Commission Minutes — February 13, 2014
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Update on Met Council's Population Forecasts
At its October 10, 2013 meeting, Planning Commission discussed Thrive MSP 2040 and the
preliminary forecasts included in the plan for the City of Hugo. At that time they made a
recommendation to the City Council to provide a comment letter to the Met Council to keep the
forecasted numbers from the 2030 Comprehensive Plan.
Planner Rachel Juba explained that Thrive MSP is a long-range plan for the seven county metro
region that includes forecasts of population, households and employment. The population
numbers in the initial forecast were significantly lower for Hugo than the 2030 forecast used in
the City's last Comprehensive Plan for the development of infrastructure and the MUSA area. In
developing the 2030 Comprehensive plan, the forecasted population was 40,000 people by 2040,
and the preliminary forecast had been lowered to 23,200. Staff was directed to send a letter to
the Metropolitan Council requesting the forecasts be revised to a population of 40,000 people by
2040. On February 19, 2014, the Met Council released the revised population forecast for Hugo
at 31,300 and are allowing another comment period, which will end on April 28, 2014.
Arcand made a motion, seconded by Gwynn, to recommendation to the City Council to provide a
comment letter to the Met Council to keep the forecasted numbers from the 2030
Comprehensive Plan.
All Ayes, motion carried.
Adjournment
Arcand motioned, Kleissler seconded, to adjourn at 7:00 pm.
All Ayes, motion carried.
Meeting adjourned.
Rachel Juba
Planner