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MINUTES OF THE ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING Monday, July 15,2002 6:30 o’clock p.m. A-1 Melin agreed. Smith moved, Mabusih seconded, to table Application #02-2801, Kathy Melin, 3309 Crystal Bay Road, to allow the applicant time to explore other options for their proposed porch. VOTE: Ayes 7, Nays 0. (Recess taken from 8:43 p.m. - 8:53 p.m.) SCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING - 8:30 P.M. (#16) #02-2789 DAHLSTROM DEVELOPMENT LLC, 2550 WEST WAYZATA BOULEVARD, PRELIMINARY PLAT REVIEW, GENERAL CONCEPT PLAN APPROVAL AND REZONING FROM RR-IB SINGLE FAMILY RURAL RESIDENTIAL TO RPUD RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT 8:54 p.m. - 10:29 p.m. Steve Johnston, Carolyn Krall, and Kendra Lindahl of Landform Designs, and the applicant Mr. Dahlstrom, were present. Gaffron reported that the Applicants had submitted a revised proposal to develop portions of this 51-acre site via the Planned Unit Development process. Proposed uses include a mixture of residential housing types to be located north of Kelley Parkway, including 59 rambler townhomes, 43 two-story lownhomes, and 66 lohs (condominium units). The proposal would create two commercial outlets south of Kelley Parkw ay for future development. Gaffron stated that the Planning Commission met with the City Council and representatives for the developer last week in a joint work session to familiarize themselves w ith the new proposal. The required approvals include: Proposed rezoning of the residential area north of Kelley Parkway to RPUD. PUD General Concept Plan Approval is the first stage of the two-stage PUD review process in which the Planning Commission and City Council review all conceptual aspects of the proposed development. Finally, the PUD Development Plan Approval will be sought as the final stage in which the developer w ill provide detailed plans for implementation of the approved General Concept Plan, as well as preliminary and final plat documents. As part of the Concept Plan Review phase, Gaffron stated that the Planning Commission should focus on both general and detail aspects of the development plan. By identifying issues and concerns, and defining both positive and negative aspects related to the Concept Plan, the Commission’s goal should be to provide specific direction to the applicant as to how’ resolve the issues. Such direction could result in one of two actions; revision and submittal of the concept plan to reflect all required changes or insertion of the direction into the concept plan approval resolution as a condition to be met before the City will grant final development plan approval. Gaffron pointed out that some difference of opinion has occurred between staff and the applicant’s consultants regarding at what level of the review process concept plan approval PAGE 16 of 35