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r <br />L <br />c9 E <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Mayor Peterson and Counc3 Meinlient <br />Ron Moorse, City* Administrator <br />December II. 2003 <br />SUBJECT: Proposal for ‘’Country Pub*' <br />Gene Purdy, the owner of Brit's Pub in downtown Minneapolis, would like to develop a concept <br />similar to Brit’s Pub, but with a “countryside” setting. The concept involves a pub/restaurant set <br />among 3 or 4 soccer fields that are available to youth soccer programs and for adult soccer <br />leagues, 'fhe proposed location is the 20 acres of land in the southwest quadrant of Highway 12 <br />and Old Crystal Bay Road. Mr. Purdy will attend the worksession to present more detailed <br />information regarding the concept, and a potential layout of the concept on the site. <br />While this is an intriguing concept, llicrc are a number of issues to be considered as tlic Council <br />reviews this proposal, 'ilicsc include die foUotving: <br />'flic Comprehensive Plan guides this land for resklential development <br />'Die proposed pub would Ik* located in relatively close proximity to die Orono Schools <br />campus <br />'file proposed pub would be lix'ated adjacent to die residential development for which the <br />land direedy to the west lias been guided. <br />Some of the soccer fields may be li^ed <br />■ ---------------------------