Agenda • CITY OF ELK RIVER
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
PLANNING COMMISSION
AGENDA
Saturday, January 11, 1997
8:30 a.m.
Elk River City Hall - Administrative Conference Room
ACTION
ITEM NUMBER TAKEN
1. CALL MEETING TO ORDER.
2. CONSIDER 1/11/97 AGENDA
• 3. ELECT NEW PLANNING COMMISSION CHAIR FOR
1997
4. ELECT NEW VICE CHAIR FOR 1997
5. REVIEW PLANNING COMMISSION RULES AND
PROCEDURES
6. REVIEW SECTION 214 OF THE ELK RIVER CITY
CODE PERTAINING TO PLANNING COMMISSION
7. EVALUATE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES
ACCOMPLISHED IN 1996
8. FORMULATE NEW GOALS AND OBJECTIVES FOR
1997
9. DISCUSS TOPICS/ISSUES FOR PLANNING
COMMISSION WORKSHOP MEETINGS
10. DISCUSS TOPICS/ISSUES FOR JOINT MEETING
II/
WITH THE CITY COUNCIL
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• 11. OVERVIEW OF COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
12. UPDATE ON SHERBURNE COUNTY LONG-RANGE
TRANSPORTATION PLAN
13. REVIEW PLANNING COMMISSION SCHEDULE FOR
1997
14. RESOLUTION SUPPORTING COMMUNITY VALUES
GUIDE
15. SCHEDULE JOINT MEETING WITH CITY COUNCIL
16. ATTENDANCE TO NATIONAL PLANNING
CONFERENCE
17. ADJOURNMENT
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City of CiTY OF ELK RIVERElk SPECIAL MEETING NOTICE
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE
ELK RIVER PLANNING COMMISSION
I, Judy Thompson, Planning Commission Chair, hereby request a
special meeting of the Elk River Planning Commission ver ty Hall Saturday,1 65 January no
11, 1997, at 8:30 a.m., to be held at
the Parkway.
The purpose of the special meeting is to take care of annual business to
include election of officers, discussion of rules and regulations and to review
goals and objectives for 1997.
In accordance with State Statute, I hereby request the city clerk to post this
III notice at least three days prior to the meeting date. I iono furtl�reisque i �est the city
clerk to notify each member of the Planning
meeting, in writing, at least one day before the meeting.
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Judy homp-on, C-.air Date
has been posted and that I have served
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that this notice
this notice upon the members of the Elk River Planning Commission by mail
at least one day prior to the above-called special Planning Commission
meeting.
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Sandra A. Thackeray, City Clerk
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River TO: Planning Commission
FROM: Steve Ach, City Planner
DATE: January 11, 1997
SUBJECT: Planning Commission Annual Meeting
Included in your packet is a variety of backup information which will help
facilitate discussion of some of the agenda items. The first two items are
copies of minutes from last year's Planning Commission annual meeting, as
well as the joint meeting the Planning Commission had with the City
Council. This will be helpful for those Commission members that were not
present at the meeting(s).
Item No. 7& 8
• The Planning Commission's goals and workshop topics set for 1996 were for
the most part, accomplished with the exception of goal no. 3 and workshop
topics no. 2 and no. 5. The Planning Commission did not have a joint
meeting with the Park & Recreation Commission in 1996 as they did in 1995.
Talking with Dave Anderson of the Park & Rec Commission, he believes a
joint meeting with the Planning Commission would be helpful for both
groups. As far as the workshop topic regarding the downtown, this issue was
placed on the back burner following the departure of Bill Rubin, economic
development coordinator. Since this issue would involve the Economic
Development Authority and Housing & Redevelopment Authority, it would
be critical to have the new Economic Development Director on board prior to
commencing this project. I suspect this issue will once again receive a lot of
attention in 1997. In fact, the Strategic Planning Task Force identified the
downtown as one of the top four economic development priorities for the
upcoming years.
One of the workshop topics the Commission identified for 1996 was to plan a
mobile workshop. I thought the workshop was a great opportunity for the
Commission to experience first-hand (and as a group) several issues
discussed in staff reports and presented at Planning Commission meetings.
Hopefully, two or three mobile workshops can be arranged in 1997 to
evaluate projects that the Commission has reviewed. I would like to also
. utilize the mobile workshop to visit developments in other communities that
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. may have similar components of proposed projects in Elk River (i.e., Schulze
property).
Also attached are Judy Thompson's notes from a recent Planning
Commission workshop. This information should assist in "charting the
course" for 1997.
Item No. 10
The joint meeting with the City Council and Planning Commission has been
scheduled for Monday, February 24th. The meeting will begin at 6:00 and
run for approximately an hour. If any of the Commission members have a
conflict on this date, it should be mentioned at the meeting Saturday to make
sure that there will be enough Commission members in attendance to make
that date workable.
Item No. 11
Commission member Mesich requested that a brief overview of the
Comprehensive Plan be presented. As part of this overview, I will be
prepared to update the Commission on some possible Comprehensive Plan
amendments that will be coming forward in 1997.
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Item No. 12
Included in your packet are the most recent minutes from Sherburne
County's meeting to discuss the long range transportation plan. Basically,
the County has had the update of this plan on hold due to a change in
consultants they were using to help them through the process.
Item No. 13
The enclosed schedule for 1997 gives an overview of all of the Planning
Commission workshops, meetings and other pertinent events. Also included
are the Planning Commission representatives to attend the City Council
meetings for each given month. Commission members are asked to review
the schedule and point out any conflicts they may have with future meetings
or workshops so adjustments can be made.
Item No. 14
As discussed at the last Planning Commission meeting, a resolution is being
prepared for the Commission to consider supporting the Community Values
IDGuide formulated by participants at a recent 2001 Committee, Inc.
conference. Adopting this resolution will acknowledge the Planning
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Commission's support of the Community Values, however, it will not be made
part of the Zoning Ordinance nor the Comprehensive Plan. I plan on
distributing this resolution at the meeting Saturday.
Item No. 15
As previously mentioned, the joint meeting with the City Council has been
scheduled for February 24th at 6 p.m.
Item No. 16
Last week I received a preliminary program for this year's national planning
conference to be held in San Diego. The dates of the conference this year will
be Saturday, April 5 through Wednesday, April 9. As in the past, two
commission members have been included in the budget to attend the national
conference. The Commission may want to discuss which two representatives
will be attending this year's conference.
In closing, if there are any other items or issues the Commission would like
to discuss at Saturday's annual meeting, please contact me prior to the
meeting and the appropriate information will be made available. Just a
• reminder, coffee and juice along with rolls and muffins will be provided. I
look forward to seeing everyone Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
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