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Reasons for wanting to serve on the Orono Planning Commission: <br />Last year I spent time before both the Planning Commission and the City Council <br />to get permission to put a small bathroom in our Game Building, which is a separate structure <br />from our home. I worked with the city employees and some members of the Planning <br />Commission to fashion a new ordinance which would allow plumbing in accessory structures <br />under certain circumstances. I also sat through many Planning Commission meetings and <br />working sessions and nbserved their work on issues unrelated to my own. I gained quite a bit of <br />knowledge on the work of the Planning Commission through those experiences. <br />1 believe the Planning Commission could use my legal and engineering <br />experience in evaluating difficult and complex issues. I have had extensive training and <br />experience in both engineering and the law which I am willing to offer as a volunteer to the City <br />of Orono. I am also a licensed Professional Engineer in the area of electrical engineering <br />(Minnesota State Board of Architecture, Engineering, Land Surveying and Landscape <br />Architecture, License No. 16531, 1984 - present). <br />My view of the role of the Commission: <br />The Comprehensive Plan foi ihe City of Orono embodies the vision liiai die <br />citizens of Orono see as the future of their city. The elected members of the City Council are <br />charged with making decisions which are in concert with the overall goals of the Comprehensive <br />Plan and to revise the Comprehensive Plan as the citizens may demand. The City Council enacts <br />ordinances for ensuring compliance with the Comprehensive Plan and seeks input from the <br />Planning Commission and the city planning engineers on the enactment of such ordinances. In <br />this role, the Planning Commission acts as an advisor to the City Council. <br />The Planning Commission also works with the city planning engineers to ensure <br />that individual building projects follow the ordinances and the Comprehensive Plan. Of course, <br />the Comprehensive Plan can’t possibly be drafted in such a way as to predict every question <br />which may arise. As such, the Planning Commission gives the citizens a forum to present their <br />building plans to the Commission when their individual projects fail to pass muster under the <br />I <br />Addendum to the application of Daniel J. Kluth to the City of Orono for the Planning Commission