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MINUTES OF PROCEEDINGS
4 OF THE HUGO PLANNING COMMISSION
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SEPTEMBER 10, 1975
The meeting was called to order at 8: 04 PM by Chairman Spitzer.
Members present were : Spitzer, Ehret , Pel oqu in and Peltier. Also
attending were Irene Leroux representing the CityCouncil, Bill Schwab,
Washington County Planner and Brian Amundson of the City Engineer' s
office.
Peltier pointed out that the AuTust 27, 1975 minutes had been
mailed out without being dated. Motion made by Peltier, seconded by
Ehret , to approve the minutes of the August 27, 1975 meeting after the
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date has been added. Motion carried.
William Pavek
_ Mr. Gordon ?inschlag represented Mr. Pavek, who has applied for a
Special Use Permit to approve a feroe approximately 51 8" high and
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extending 80 feet alonp IngersollAvenueto he taken down during the
j winter months so as not to intertere with snow plowing.
It was pointed out that Mr. Pavek has already built the fence , not
being aware that he needed a variance to do so. It is constructed of
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cedar poles with 6" wide alternating boards. It was installed in the
ditch, which is also the road right of way, and so as seen from the •road
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is only approximately 417" tall.
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Motion made by Peloquin, seconded. by Peltier to recommend to the
City Council that the variance be granted subject to the following
conditions:
1. The cross members of the fenoe may placedonly be from the 1st
b, of May through the first of November of each year.
2. That the southwesterly 241 of the fenoe be either removed or
rebuilt in order to join to the northeasterly corner of the
garage.
1. The Special Use permit must be renewed on an annual basis
without fee.
4. Failure to comply with any of the above conditions shall a11 result
in immediate termination of the Special Us.- Termit .
Members voting aye : Spitzer, Ehret , Peloquin and Peltier. Motion
carried.
Lee Stewart
Mr. Stewart appeared at City Hail on August 18, 9?Sand applied
for a Special use remit to operate a used car lot at sorest Roulevard
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and 141st Street. He did not a spear at the August 27th meeting and was
notified by mail that he would be put on the agenda for the September 10
meeting and the matter would be discussed if he appeared. He failed t le d t o
Appear at this meeting also.
Motion made by Ehret, seconded by Peltier, to recommend to the Cit •
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Council that the Special Use Permit to operate a Used carlot cor-
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on the cot
ner of 141st Street and Forest Boulevard, be denied
Mr. Stewart because
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•.� he has not presented proper data for the application. Mem ers voting for: .
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Spitzer, Ehret ,Peloquin and Peltier. Motion carried.
Metro oli tan Steel �'abrjc a t ors a
Metropolitan p� Steel el Fabricators, Inc„, 5118 130th Street North, Hugo,
:4# has applied for a subdivision variance to use gravel.s gra 1. instead of blacktop
on the parking lot for their proposed building at the
above site. They
have also requested site} � it plan approval.
A motion was made by Pelo .uin seconded byEhret , that recommend-
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at i on be made to the City Council that site plan approval 1 be given to
Metropolitan Steel Fabs •
P Fabricators, Inc. , Lot 1, Block 1 , :bald Eagle Indust-
rial Park, Lying in Section '30, es presented to the Hugo Planning Comm-
, _ fission. Members voting for: Spitzer, Ehret , Pe1o. uin and Peltier.
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k motion was also made by Ehret , seconded by Peltier, to recommend
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to the city Council that a variance be Granted the Metropolitan Steel
[?arricetors , Inc. , I.ot 1, Block 1, Bald Eagle Industrial Park, lying l yin in
ecti on 10, to the extent that the parking lot may he gravel surfaced.
Members voting aye : Spitzer, Ehret , Peloiuin and Peltier. Motion carried.
Arthur Jensen
Mr. ars' Mrs. Jensen appeared with the results of soil borings they
h. d taken professionally, at the property on which they vA sh to build a
duplex at 4504 170th Street North. Mr. Schwab stated he would like to
discuss the matter with the company that did the borings. He also felt
their should be a public hearing and that he would have a report ready
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Motion made by Pe l o u i n seconded by Peltier, to hold a public
hearing on the 29th day of S,. tember 1975PM at the Hugo p at g City ity
1 Hall for the purpose of considerationof
p a Special Use Permit for
Arthur and Joann Jensen to build a duplex at Ei of Wi of SW * 42A,
also known as 4504 170th Street North. Motion carried.
Shepherd of Fields Lutheran Church
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'~ A committee, headed byLester Winter appeared at the meeting.
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stated they would now like to change their proposed building site for a r.
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new church to near the southeast corner of, Forest Poulevard and County
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8A. The site isWaugh.of a larger parcel now owned by Mr. Ed Waugh. It
is presently zoned Retail Business and would have to be rezoned. The -
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Planning Commission suggested that Mr. aeugh would maybe prefer to have
the whole piece of property rezoned at that time.
The property has 16 0 feet
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that is low land, but there is about 110 feet of high ground. Theyin-
quired about filling in some of the low land and it was suggested
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James and June Smith
Mrs. Smith appeared for application for an amended Special Use
Permit to operate a child care center. She would like to have con-
dition #2 deleted from the Special Use Permit.
She stated that her child care center made heavy demands on their
sewer system last year since she had an average of nine children all day
long last year, but that she has revamped her schedule and this year the
childr'n will be coming only from 9:00 to 11:10 AM each day.
Motion on made by Peltier, seconded by Peloquin that a recommendation
be made to the City Council that the Smith's Special Use permit have
condition #2 deleted and replaced with the following :
A. The city sewer inspector shall perform a semi-annual inspection
of the on-site sewer at the applicant 's expense.
B. The Special Use Permit shall be terminated on October 1, 1976
renewed s
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Members votingaye: Spitzer, Peloquin and Peltier. Ehret voted no.
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Motion carried.
Meeting Change
Motion made by Pf-ltier, seconded by Ehret that the second meeting
of September be moved from September 24th to September 29th at 8 :00 PM.
Motion carried.
Motion made by Ehret , seconded by Peltier, to adjourn the meeting
at 9:59 PM. Motion carried.
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Mary n Babcock, Secretary
Hugo Planning Commission